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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> > 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?

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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