[PATCH] build trx firmware tool on FreeBSD

Bruce M Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Mon Jun 4 07:36:36 UTC 2007


M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <465EE2FC.7030900 at incunabulum.net>
>             Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net> writes:
> : As requested, here is a patch to build the TRX firmware wrapping tool 
> : (for Broadcom 47xx based devices such as the Linksys WRT) on FreeBSD.
>
> Cool!
>
> Have you written up instructions for how to use these tools?  Could
> you point at a web page that has them?
>   
I believe trx is available as part of the OpenWRT project.

> Also, do you think this will work for the WTR54GS [sic]?  This is the
> tiny travel version that has a slightly different Broadcom part in it
> than you've been targeting with the WRT54GS.  I have a version 1 model
> which should have enough memory for this sort of thing...

Don't know. I would be careful as Linksys have been known to swap out 
parts; I had one of their Vonage branded routers which weren't hackable 
at all, and only had 2MB of flash on board. I think it was using some 
kind of ARM.

BMS


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