From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 16 00:34:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB94532 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 00:34:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists.br@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B929394 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 00:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id q57so2050945wes.23 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:34:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=L8GHcXjNQItMq/xQdVWoisL0Svpo8UZqo8OKAZV9n1Q=; b=nqT3PosIzkrnzWUbf0Zo5HnlTvCzMv/cLlEhPYUzWOIy0dzgEkfN174ICnT/g3hcZB S2XJehDaGdA9TmU6o86b/MNbjqEJDCSgP2b19n6l+S8FMstyfuIQh7Mv2sRt2lw4EtnA P9xA/KZBoLrYOeMH71ACVsvodB4shoW1GQZRYXbGZ89KQHHIhh0FnsPrSBBfa9TbaTyR j5DDnYgizlXQr1J0pqQyQA+HbO2Ii8IXmitd1QmL9I5nIz89dv31/40mEZVdK58UNYnt n6239wpGn2EQFdzo7/uDYzFRCeqPswTqyCeBwm6fK6ARBYANxjrVFWFcEs0N3i1Drf42 qtbA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.89.140 with SMTP id bo12mr19324020wib.22.1368664487154; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.217.117.202 with HTTP; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:34:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <518ACFB3.5080104@gmail.com> References: <518ACFB3.5080104@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 21:34:47 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Mikrotik RB751G-2HnD From: Luiz Otavio O Souza To: Piotr Kubaj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 00:34:48 -0000 On 8 May 2013 19:20, Piotr Kubaj wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. I've recently noticed that FreeBSD is quite well supported on > MIPS routers. I myself own Mikrotik RouterBoard RB751G-2HnD (specs on > http://routerboard.com/RB751G-2HnD ). It seems to be supported. So, is > there anyone running FreeBSD on this specific model or a similar one? > Can I get some how-to on installing FreeBSD? One thing bugs me, most > of these supported routers have 16-64MB flash. How is FreeBSD supposed > to fit in that? Is some USB drive required? Thanks, Piotr Kubaj. > Hi Piotr, Well, its kind of supported but there is no driver for the NAND on it, which means you can boot from NAND yet. Also i'm not sure what is the wifi chip on it cannot say if it supported or not. I've some routerboards from the 4xx series (433UAH, 450, 450G) and they all work fine (booting over NFS). There are a few options out there to address the installation size footprint (crochet, zrouter, etc.) and USB storage is also an option. I'm (very) interested in fully support all that models (RB4xx and RB7xx), but it may take a while (i've a bunch of things to work on right now, but feel free to poke me from time to time until i get it done). Luiz