I'm looking to build my own router using an old Foxconn NanoPC nT-i1250 Intel NM10 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System.

I can't seem to post links here, so can't link the article I found where a guy is giving a tut on how to build a router out of a book size PC using Ubuntu Server.  It's a bit over my head.  However, in the article he links to this site, stating OpenWrt may be the way to go for someone like me.  Last time I played with Linux was RedHat Linux in the late 1990's simply to run a Quake2 server, I have no Linux skills at all.

I see OpenWrt has a hardware compatibility list, but it seem it is for off the shelf routers, and I'm not sure if it is something I can use to make what I want.

Any suggestions?

What I need to do is make a router to run a home network.  The modem is a Pantech UML 290 USB modem, the network is Verizon wireless.

I found a youtube vid where a guy was able to get the Pantech UML 290 working in Linux, so I think I'm all set there, just need to figure out how to actually build the router...

http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86/64/

or Linux.

Hi there you need to look at LEDE witch is a branch of OpenWRT.
https://lede-project.org/
Openwrt 15.1 is to old now to use as a mane router.
The best write up about building a router is here.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04 … m-scratch/

A box with two physical Ethernet ports is desirable so you can route between them.  A USB to Ethernet converter could be used but it could be limited by the USB bus bandwidth.

OK, so even though the modem is USB it's still better to have dual GB Ethernet ports?  I could probably rig up a box with that.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll start digging into all this info.

And yeah, that link above to the router build is the article I was referring to, it might be over my head because I don't know Linux at all, but still willing to give it a try.

(Last edited by WhiteDwarf on 2 Oct 2017, 12:46)