Hi Philipp,
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 at  0:24 +0300, Philipp Riegger wrote:
> Damn, i'm not able to pick the right email address. I should really  
> go to bed.

;)
 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> >From: Philipp Riegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: October 18, 2006 11:53:43 PM GMT+03:00
> >To: pkgsrc-user MailingList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [FreeWRT-users] Bootstrap on OS X
> >Reply-To: pkgsrc-user MailingList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >On Oct 18, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> >
> >>Not yet. sorry.
> >
> >Ok... can  do anything to help you?

Yes, you could download the latest trunk and try to build. The post
the logfiles to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MacOS X support does not exist, yet, because nobody was interested.

> >>There is one big problem with MacOS X. The default root filesystem
> >>on MacOSX is normally HFS+ in case-insensitive mode.
> >
> >I know. I don't really like it and i hate software that depends on  
> >that (i had that one time, program writes "file" and reads "File")  
> >but... since i come from the Linux people i like case sensitive  
> >filesystems and i run my OS X on it and have it on all my OS X  
> >harddisks.

I see no chance to change the linux kernel source tree, to not
depend on case sensitive filesystems.

> >>The Linux kernel source needs a case-sensitive filesystem.
> >>
> >>There are three options:
> >>- reinstall macosx on a case-sensitive HFS+ partition
> >>- use a usb disk or free partition to create a case-sensitive HFS+
> >>  partition for the buildroot
> >>- use a script to create a imagefile with a case-sensitive
> >>  filesystem
> >
> >Creating the images is no big deal, you just have to know the  
> >command. You don't need a script for that, usually 5-10 lines in  
> >the manual are enough. I think, the pkgsrc manual describes how to  
> >do that, if you want an example.
> >
> >>The base system compiles fine on BSD. There are some packages which
> >>checks some Linux specific stuff, which do not let you cross-compile
> >>on BSD. (f.e. mysql)
> >
> >Ok, that's nothing you can easily change, but no big deal as long  
> >as you don't depend on the packages.
> >
> >>We will try to finish MacOSX support for 1.1.
> >
> >Ok. If i find some time and you provide me some help, i can try to  
> >play around with it a bit. Is there some documnentation or  
> >something like a roadmap online? Last time i looked i did not find  
> >anything.

https://www.freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Development/ToDo

> >And... before i try to bootstrap... which Accesspoint would you  
> >recommend? I own a WRT54G v2, but i can't use it for that. I would  
> >be interestes in something with WLAN, USB (2.0 if possible) and 2  
> >or more network ports.

Asus WL500g Premium. 8 MB flash, 266 Mhz, 32 MB RAM. Works fine with
FreeWRT 1.0.

best regards
        Waldemar

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