Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:01:05 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> Cc: Bachilo Dmitry <root@solink.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd Message-ID: <433418B1.3020207@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050923120025.GD21906@poupinou.org> References: <433436E2.3040603@ThePacific.Net> <200509230725.21156.thierry@herbelot.com> <20050923090806.GA21906@poupinou.org> <200509231716.19434.root@solink.ru> <1127476245.17949.2.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <20050923120025.GD21906@poupinou.org>
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Bruno Ducrot wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:50:45PM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: > >>Le Vendredi 23 septembre 2005 à 12:16 +0200, Bachilo Dmitry a écrit : >> >>>Forwarding to FreeBSD hackers. (Because i am hacking WRT right now and only >>>Linux flashes work) >>>---------- ?????????????????????? ?????????????????? ---------- >>> >>>Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd >>>Date: ?????????????? 23 ???????????????? 2005 17:06 >>>From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> >>>To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org >>>Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <marcos@thepacific.net> >>> >>>Le Friday 23 September 2005 11:08, vous avez écrit : >>> >>>>On the other hand, it's the wireless thing. If not needed, this >>>>should be fun to do a port, somehow, even though it's a wireless >>>>router. >>> >>>The "cool factor" of porting FreeBSD to the WRT54G cannot be underestimated, >>>but Linux ports were enormously helped by the opening of the sources of the >>>Linksys Linux port (which is absent for FreeBSD) and the big number of >>>willing developpers (just have a look at the *number* of different Linux >>>ports to the WRT). >>> >>>The latest 6.0 release would be an excellent target, with its brand-new >>>support for WPA and virtual APs ... who volunteers ? >> >> The Linksys WRT54g wireless router is based on a Broadcom CPU >> (derived from MIPS) and FreeBSD/mips seems to be a dead >> project :-( > > > Indeed. It's targeted to SGI platforms anyway. Maybe there is a need to > start a new port if there is enough people interrested? > There has been talk of doing this in the past year from some people, but I don't know if it got very far. If you're inspired, go for it! There are plenty of docs on the web about how to attach a serial port header and bootstrap it. And, don't underestimate the mips32 work that is already in the tree; it's likely a good starting point. And, it's more than just a 'coolness' factor. I'd really like to have pf running on mine, that way I could rid of the clunky machine doing static NAT + firewall on my DSL line. THe linux firewall capabilities are soooooo last century =-) Scott
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