Fwd: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd

[Bachilo Dmitry]

Forwarding to FreeBSD hackers. (Because i am hacking WRT right now and on
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Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd
Date: Пятница 23 СенÑ
�ябрь 2005 17:06
From: Thierry Herbelot <thi...@herbelot.com>
To: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <mar...@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 ?

TfH
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[Florent Thoumie]

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: Пятница 23 Сентябрь 2005 17:06

> From: Thierry Herbelot <thi...@herbelot.com>
> To: freebsd...@freebsd.org
> Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <mar...@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 :-(

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Florent Thoumie
f...@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

[Bruno Ducrot]

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 an
d only
> > Linux flashes work)

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> >
> > Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G with freebsd

> > Date: ?????????????? 23 ???????????????? 2005 17:06

> > From: Thierry Herbelot <thi...@herbelot.com>
> > To: freebsd...@freebsd.org
> > Cc: "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <mar...@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 underest
imated,
> > 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 o
f
> > willing developpers (just have a look at the *number* of different Li
nux
> > ports to the WRT).
> >
> > The latest 6.0 release would be an excellent target, with its brand-n
ew
> > 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.

[Scott Long]

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

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <433418B1...@samsco.org>
Scott Long <sco...@samsco.org> writes:
: 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.

I believe that these are only in p4. The only mips things that I
could find in my current tree were the atheros drivers.

The p4 stuff is a port of the netbsd mips code with a lot of stuff
ripped out. I'm not sure that the right stuff remains, since it was
targeted at modern mips devices. Yet many new mips devices use
'ancient' design. I don't think that the WRT54G uses such things, but
you never can tell with mips cores :-).

: 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 =-)

Totally agreed!

Warner

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:01:05AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 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.

I thought it was targeted for mips64?

--
Bruno Ducrot

-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.

[Mike Lawrence]

Has anyone considered looking into the airlink wireless AR315W
>From the linuxdevices website
The AirLink101 AR315W is based on a Marvell ARM914 board, has a six-port
10/100 Ethernet switch, and can run Linux or eCos
just a thought

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[Joao Barros]

> Scott

m0n0wall or it's version on steroids pfsense would be real cool to
have on a WRT54g 8)

>THe linux firewall capabilities are soooooo last century =-)

Except for some nice projects/patches that do Layer 7 and allow
filtering or queueing on specific traffic. ALTQ applied to marked
packets would be lovely :)
This would be very nice to have, except everyone (Daniel Hartmeier
included) tells it's a bad ideia to have protocol inspection at the
firewall level.... well, going off topic but couldn't resist ;)

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Joao Barros