From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 15:01:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC35D16A41F; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8673143D45; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:01:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8NF16ej063052; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:01:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <433418B1.3020207@samsco.org> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:01:05 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050615 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruno Ducrot 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> In-Reply-To: <20050923120025.GD21906@poupinou.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Bachilo Dmitry , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:01:19 -0000 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 >>>To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org >>>Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - 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