Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
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Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
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Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#2that's awesome. now for those who have a plethora of other MIPS & ARM devices but next to zero kernel hacking skills, what can they do?
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#3that's awesome. now for those who have a plethora of other MIPS & ARM devices but next to zero kernel hacking skills, what can they do?
If you cannot physically donate them, perhaps you can offer remote access: hook them through a serial line to a computer that other people can ssh into.
You'll need a small contraption to be able to reset the device remotely. If you have a friend who knows a thing or two about hardware, he can come up with one in a few hours (it just needs to momentarily interrupt the connected device's power supply).
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#4that's awesome. now for those who have a plethora of other MIPS & ARM devices but next to zero kernel hacking skills, what can they do?
jump in and ask questions. :)
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#5that's awesome. now for those who have a plethora of other MIPS & ARM devices but next to zero kernel hacking skills, what can they do?
jump in and ask questions. :)
I believe this was more about "how to make it scale for the masses", and not so much about "how to make it work for one more person with less technical knowledge".
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#6that's awesome. now for those who have a plethora of other MIPS & ARM devices but next to zero kernel hacking skills, what can they do?
jump in and ask questions. :)
love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author
Thanks for working on this. My friend has been looking at doing some consulting and wanted to be able to distribute low cost FreeBSD-based routers. Now the framework is here...
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
jump in and ask questions. :)
love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author Thanks for working on this. My friend has been looking at doing some consulting and wanted to be able to distribute low cost FreeBSD-based routers. Now the framework is here...
> love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author
Not sure I get this criticism.
To my understanding, downvoting is a judgement of a specific comment. It is neither about the person who wrote it, nor about whatever else that person wrote.
In particular, I don't see how these donvotes diminished the author's work on that article in any way. The 50 upvotes (currently) on that article tell an entirely different story.
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#8He mentions pfSense and though it's sort of tangential, I have used pfSense on a Netgate device for years and years and been very happy with its performance. Highly recommended.
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#9He mentions pfSense and though it's sort of tangential, I have used pfSense on a Netgate device for years and years and been very happy with its performance. Highly recommended.
Netgates are nice, but not cheap. What do you do when you want to run FreeBSD on a $50 wifi router you have laying around?
Re: Putting Freebsd on little Wi-Fi router devices
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author Thanks for working on this. My friend has been looking at doing some consulting and wanted to be able to distribute low cost FreeBSD-based routers. Now the framework is here...
> love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author Not sure I get this criticism. To my understanding, downvoting is a judgement of a specific comment. It is neither about the person who wrote it, nor about whatever else that person wrote. In particular, I don't see how these donvotes diminished the author's work on that article in any way. The 50 upvotes (currently) on th…
Why would anyone downvote "jump in and ask questions :-)"? What is there to disagree about there?
Nothing.
It was downvoted because it looked like a stranger telling someone what to do.