Re: AR9132 CPU and AR9100 wireless support

Ive got some Ubiquiti mips devices id love to get FreeBSD on permanently
and a Netgear WNDR370, if only we could boot FreeBSD out of redboot
and flash it to them it would seriously ROCK,

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Stefan Bethke <stb_at_lassitu.de> wrote:

> Am 14.09.2010 um 11:35 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've just pushed the initial support for the AR9100 wireless MAC into
> > my git repository. This is for the WMAC on the AR9132 SoC.
> >
> > I've tested it in 11bg hostap mode on an AP83 derived box - the
> > TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. The source tree has support for the CPU, ethernet
> > (but not the switch PHY; it's enough to get data across it!); flash
> > and the AR9100 WMAC.
> >
> > I've only tested "open" hostap mode on 11bg on a fixed channel.
> >
> > The GIT repo is at:
> > http://www.gitorious.org/~adrianchadd/freebsd/adrianchadd-freebsd ;
> > it's the "work/atheros" branch. You'll need to open the unit up,
> > solder on some pins to get to the serial port and acquire a TTL ->
> > RS232 level converter. There's pictures and howto on the OpenWRT wiki:
> > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd
>
> That sounds really nice!  Is there some guide on how to prepare an image?
>  I'm quite familiar with OpenWrt (patching and building) and have a number
> of routers (WRT-160N, WR941NL, 500gP) with serial adapters attached, but
> from the messages on the mips list, it felt the bootstrapping process might
> be a bit dauting...
>
>
> Stefan
>
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