From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 16 00:58:37 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 950179C2 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 00:58:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x22e.google.com (mail-we0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22e]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3140763F for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 00:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id x53so2179491wes.19 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=riXjoBBqu7UTVq2wbiDJ19Z35DxkKm3sjfRcBCvfSFo=; b=p+kfJQzZ6h+ZmVnx9OGrJULxbXN4ON/9qNcR08QV+eeqqJoplZr8xvN0921zp/kRLa sU60XdE1iIizyAXQfzHI9LCodZC4BfwTI5gfNa7D10JybfZYn4dQk90FWnsL2P7o3bGY CecWhpTopKZnFajhvthNFRhGuSx3Aerxc+TvltCf/XlKTLUX6FRaSHCtoInoo0/eYewR t6nfozw517q55wgTrN4adlnpvqf+PLA1SyM0UQ2RhX37t14WCcQK7k523RWssYdrHy9y avx8fB57su6IjLR9Mgj3bxA+mXOIDccw+GMbT6MCAK/zpORnPh5pgUsBaEwbbHg/ewVY Ofuw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.88.162 with SMTP id bh2mr19575910wib.3.1368665916354; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.217.58.138 with HTTP; Wed, 15 May 2013 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <518ACFB3.5080104@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:58:36 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WB_SsGfamH414liuSM6sTJ8y7bQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Mikrotik RB751G-2HnD From: Adrian Chadd To: Luiz Otavio O Souza Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Piotr Kubaj , 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 00:58:37 -0000 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 wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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"