Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:58:36 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com> Cc: Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com>, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Mikrotik RB751G-2HnD Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=yrZiK-0DGR7NnhPQbcec0T2MYZW=jqiAF9hEkOGQaSA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAB=2f8y9RoitgZ8StbP7gGu0=QKkLgsE3PORokJ4S38DzomQYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <518ACFB3.5080104@gmail.com> <CAB=2f8y9RoitgZ8StbP7gGu0=QKkLgsE3PORokJ4S38DzomQYg@mail.gmail.com>
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Interesting! http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/2029/ Doesn't look too hard to support the wifi side of things. adrian On 15 May 2013 17:34, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 May 2013 19:20, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@gmail.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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