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

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Sun, July 7, 2013 02:42, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Ugh, -HEAD bloat.
>
> Sorry, someone's going to have to help out slimming things down. I
> can't take care of all of it all the time. :(

Thanks Adrian. Before asking in head@, is there any rev from SVN that I could checkout to test,
that is known to be ok ?

thanks,

matheus

> -adrian
>
> On 6 July 2013 13:19, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus at eternamente.info> wrote:
>>
>> 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