Fwd: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd
Bruno Ducrot
ducrot at poupinou.org
Fri Sep 23 05:01:00 PDT 2005
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 <thierry at herbelot.com>
> > To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> > Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <marcos at 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?
--
Bruno Ducrot
-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.
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