FreeBSD on ASUS, TP-Link and D-Link routers?

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Wed, July 3, 2013 10:21, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> FreeBSD runs on the TL-WR1043nd. It was my first Atheros SoC port.
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips/TL-WR1043ND

adrian,

I tried and got:

*** Target Done.
*** Target              : mfsroot
*** Deleting old file system..
*** Creating new filesystem...
*** Populating filesystem...
install: /home/matheus/work/freebsd/head/src/../root/mipseb/sbin/switchctl: No such file or directory
*** Target Done.
*** Target              : fsimage
*** Running makefs to build compressed image ..
Calculated size of `/home/matheus/work/freebsd/head/src/../mfsroot-tl-wr1043nd.img': 19308544
bytes, 1223 inodes
Extent size set to 4096
/home/matheus/work/freebsd/head/src/../mfsroot-tl-wr1043nd.img: 18.4MB (37712 sectors) block size
4096, fragment size 512
        using 2 cylinder groups of 12.96MB, 3319 blks, 896 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
    32, 26584,
Populating `/home/matheus/work/freebsd/head/src/../mfsroot-tl-wr1043nd.img'
Image `/home/matheus/work/freebsd/head/src/../mfsroot-tl-wr1043nd.img' complete
*** Running mkuzip to create a compressed filesystem ..
*** Target Done.
*** Target              : tplink
4093+2 records in
4093+1 records out
2096035 bytes transferred in 1.316779 secs (1591789 bytes/sec)
[mktplinkfw] *** error: rootfs image is too big

and:

 ls /tftpboot/
kernel.TP-WN1043ND              mfsroot-tl-wr1043nd.img.uzip
kernel.TP-WN1043ND.symbols

I guess this is not expected.

how can I troubleshoot this ?

and, can I just upload it on the tp-link firmware upload page ?

Luiz said that the main issue is that I can't see the boot and solve problems if they appear (if I
understand him right). Is this ?

thanks,

matheus


> -adrian
>
> On 2 July 2013 04:41, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, July 2, 2013 02:52, Zeus Panchenko wrote:
>>> Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've successfully used TP-Link MR3220 and MR3420 this way.
>>>>
>>>
>>> thanks for the point
>>>
>>> what I in general want from the issue is more or less "common"
>>> necessities of small (2-10 workplaces) office
>>>
>>> and it includes:
>>>
>>> - vi
>>> - pf
>>> - PPPoE
>>> - hostapd
>>> - OpenVPN
>>> - bsnmpd
>>> - network utilities
>>>   netstat, ifconfig, route, tcpdump
>>> - some optional tools
>>> -- mtr
>>> -- nrpe
>>> -- sendmail
>>> -- tmux/screen
>>> - anything I missed :)
>>>
>>> so, what are the chances to build image with these?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've talked to Luiz some time ago, but I had no time to invest in struggling with the serial
>> interface.
>>
>> As I said before, I have a 1043ND and would really like to see it running FreeBSD. Imagine this
>> hardware running pfSense ? this would be the dlink killer ;)
>>
>> do I need to upload it to the hardware to tinkle with the build script ? First of all I'd like
>> to
>> help this way, as my shell skills are better then my coding skills :)
>>
>> att,
>>
>> matheus
>>
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>>
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>>
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We will call you Cygnus,
The God of balance you shall be

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style