FreeBSD on Mikrotik RB751G-2HnD

[Adrian Chadd]

Interesting!

http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/2029/

Doesn't look too hard to support the wifi side of things.




adrian

On 15 May 2013 17:34, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 May 2013 19:20, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all. I've recently noticed that FreeBSD is quite well supported on
>> MIPS routers. I myself own Mikrotik RouterBoard RB751G-2HnD (specs on
>> http://routerboard.com/RB751G-2HnD ). It seems to be supported. So, is
>> there anyone running FreeBSD on this specific model or a similar one?
>> Can I get some how-to on installing FreeBSD? One thing bugs me, most
>> of these supported routers have 16-64MB flash. How is FreeBSD supposed
>> to fit in that? Is some USB drive required? Thanks, Piotr Kubaj.
>>
>
> Hi Piotr,
>
> Well, its kind of supported but there is no driver for the NAND on it,
> which means you can boot from NAND yet.
>
> Also i'm not sure what is the wifi chip on it cannot say if it supported or
> not.
>
> I've some routerboards from the 4xx series (433UAH, 450, 450G) and they all
> work fine (booting over NFS).
>
> There are a few options out there to address the installation size
> footprint (crochet, zrouter, etc.) and USB storage is also an option.
>
> I'm (very) interested in fully support all that models (RB4xx and RB7xx),
> but it may take a while (i've a bunch of things to work on right now, but
> feel free to poke me from time to time until i get it done).
>
> Luiz
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