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)
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Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd
Date: ?????????????? 23 ???????????????? 2005 17:06
From: Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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