Hardware compatibility
- Determining if FreshTomato is compatible with your hardware
  - Notes
- Hardware Compatibility Table

Hardware compatibility

Determining if FreshTomato is compatible with your hardware

Look for your router/gateway device in the Hardware Compatibility Table below; it is the authoritative source for FreshTomato hardware support. Pay particular attention to your model's hardware revision,¹⁾ if it has one it too must be included in the table entry. If your device is listed in the table, it is officially supported, however this does not imply the existence of any guarantee that you personally will be able to successfully install FreshTomato on your particular device. Carefully review any notes that are part of the table entry, that is where the most important details are recorded.
Use a trustworthy external source to confirm that your device uses a Broadcom chipset, such as an independent reference database²⁾ like WikiDevi or TechInfoDepot. There, enter your device's model number (including dashes) in the search box. If your model is among the search results, visit the page and confirm that it lists “Broadcom” in all of the required fields below. After confirming that your device does indeed use Broadcom hardware, you can post a request on the forum to add support for it, with link(s) to the reference databases you checked included in your post.
- CPU1
- Switch
- All fields whose names conform to these formats:³⁾
  - ETH chipX
  - WIX chipX
Search the forum for a (partly) working build still under development. If your device uses a Broadcom chipset but isn't listed in the table, someone might be already be working on adding support for it. Alternatively, it may be known that a build for another model may work to some degree with your device, though not perfectly/completely.⁴⁾ Be alert for differences in hardware revision; though their name may suggest otherwise, these are off radically different electronics that only sharing a common outer plastic shell. Depending on the model, significant risks might be involved; read the details carefully.

Notes

¹⁾ Sometimes one hardware version/revision of the same model is supported, but others are not. For example, the “A1” model is supported, but “A2” and “B2” are not. Most often, this is a result of different revisions of the same model being based on different chipsets. FreshTomato only supports devices using Broadcom chipsets of ARM or MIPS architecture.

²⁾ These sites also maintain lists of devices compatible with FreshTomato (lists of Tomato-supported devices at WikiDevi and TechInfoDepot) with useful abilities to filter listings by many hardware-based criteria. It should be noted, though, that their information is sourced here and merely resynthesized in their databases. Thus, any contradictions between their information and what is on this page indicate the presence of incomplete or incorrect information elsewhere, not here.

³⁾ Where X is a digit indicating a series ordinal such as first, second, etc. For any given device, the first wireless chip operating on a given frequency would be labelled “WI1 chip1” and another chip operating on that same frequency would be “WI1 chip2”, while a chip operating on a different frequency in the same device would be labelled “WI2 chip1”. For an example, visit the Asus RT-AC3100 entry on WikiDevi.

⁴⁾ If the effort is successful and has sufficient testers, this will typically result in the device being added to the compatibility table. The FreshTomato developers welcome the upstreaming of such work.