WiFi with AC on FreeBSD

[Rozhuk Ivan]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:59:10 +0200
Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup at FreeBSD.org> wrote:


> >I have no idea how to make and use "linux kernel + wpa_supplicant" :)
> >OpenWRT can be rebuild (I suspect) with less ram and hdd requiremens,
> >like 64-128 ram and 32-64 hdd. It is very strange for me that it can
> >not boot if ram is less than 256mb.  
> 
> Yes, that is rather strange.
> 
> I find [1] and [2] quite interesting, because those are some very
> low-memory systems, and they only have the kernel plus a statically
> built wpa_supplicant, as far as I know.
> 
> I'll ask around a bit, I might know someone who can help.
> 
> [1]: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=5250
> [2]: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=5499

This is arm and mips, without most drivers, without EFI...

OpenWRT minimum recomended: 64 ram + 8 flash for arm based devices.
They also have builds for tl3020 with 32 ram + 4 flash, but this is hard to use :)

I play with OpenWRT at EFI in VBox and minimum ram to boot - 137mb.