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negan07 / ancistrus

Netgear's D7000 Nighthawk Router Experience Distributed Project
https://negan07.github.io/ancistrus/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Project page does not explain what it does #12

Closed troffasky closed 6 years ago

troffasky commented 6 years ago

I have a Netgear D7000. I am interested in replacing the ghastly stock firmware with something better. I have found this project and this site too:

https://negan07.github.io/ancistrus/

Once I've run these scripts, what will my D7000 do? Will it be running OpenWRT? Something similar? There is no explanation of what this project actually is/does.

negan07 commented 6 years ago

For a better knowledge, read the wiki board:

Openwrt and similar projects works with open gpl drivers like ethernet routers.

This is a modem router with broadcom/sercomm/netgear owned close source code driver and binaries: moving to an open firmware means losing the connection capatibility.

troffasky commented 6 years ago

So just userspace is touched, not the kernel? Is the existing userspace replaced entirely or is it just tweaked? Is it possible undo everything and revert to stock firmware? Is there a feature comparison of stock firmware and ancistrus? Why the name ancistrus? Is it a fork of something else or is it a new "distro"?

negan07 commented 6 years ago

Read the wiki board again now updated with all the answers,