input wanted regarding choice of hw for home wireless ap

[Nathaniel Goodman]

On May 4, 2015 8:52:33 AM GMT+01:00, Bas Vermin <bas at nimrev.com> wrote:
>Hi Nathaniel,
>
>I think you would be much better off running FreeBSD on a MIPS based
>device. There aren’t much supported ARM network appliances at the
>moment.
>
>The setup I have running at home and am really happy with is a Ubiquiti
>Edgerouter Lite running FreeBSD 10 and one of their access points
>mounted on the ceiling.
>
>Another option would be a modern consumer router like the TP-Link
>TL-1043ND v2, which just got support a few months ago (although only
>-CURRENT).
>
>Please have a look at https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips for a list
>of supported devices and check out the freebsd-mips mailing list.
>
>
>Bas
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Hi Bas,

Thank you, I had not considered mips at all. Will do some research.. though the -mips mailing list looks deceptively empty!


Addressing my original question, the banana pi fits, but I am unsure whether it will actually run fbsd 10/stable.

The normal model (not pro) has no wifi, but that is nothing that a usb m/f cable, a small usb wifi dongle and a woktenna won't fix:-)