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Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase)

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2019-07-04 · latest 2023-04-18

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  1. …have Chinese v2 models that are indistinguishable, but unsupported. https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Supported-De...
    comment by rjzzleep · 2023-04-18 · in OpenWRT 22.03.4
  2. …installable on-the-fly Possible on Asus hardware using the third-party Merlin firmware as well: * https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Entware * https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/features The default Asus firmware is decent too.
    comment by throw0101c · 2022-09-06 · in OpenWrt 22.03
  3. FWIW, Asus makes their GPL source available to Eric who makes the builds actually open source: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng#readme AOSP's middle initials are Open Source, but I'm with you on the fridge
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-04-15 · in Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
  4. …prime example, ASUS merlin is actually open source and compatible with a number of WiFi 6 routers: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng However, directly in response to the FCC rules, ASUS has restricted the ability of end users to…
    comment by matheweis · 2022-04-03 · in Show HN: I built a Wi-Fi 6 survey kit to see how common it was in my area
  5. …to reuse stuff there. There is this whole asusmerlin project repackaging the Asus firmwares: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng Ultimately lot of the issues fall down on Broadcom and Qualcomm being what they are and not even trying…
    comment by zokier · 2021-03-26 · in How much total throughput can your wi-fi router really provide?
  6. …I'm pretty sure the kernel for the AC68U is too old to support Wireguard. This link has more info: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/issues/210
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2019-11-01 · in Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
  7. …for ASUS models ( https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ and https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin and https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng ), which I have on my ASUS RT-N66U and have been very pleased with. I am actually running a…
    comment by mdaniel · 2019-07-04 · in OpenWrt 18.06.4