[CUWiN-Dev] Re: CUWIN on Meraki Mini

[Bao Q. Nguyen]

Bob,

So if David can get CUWIN to compile for the Meraki Mini, which is the same
MIPS processor that's on the WGT63U (Atheros 2515?) is running so then
porting CUWIN to the WGT63U should be much simpler. Since the problem I'm
seeing now with the Meraki is the limited 8MB flash, but if you can get the
USB driver for NETBSD to loaded, you can use the USB device as the root
partition then you no longer have the 8MB limit like the Meraki does. So I
guess we can wait for David's progress on compiling CUWIN for the EVBMIPS
platform.

Btw, how you get so many WGT63U? I wanted to get some more but I got my
hands on 3 of them right around the time they announced to stop production.

Is that the Linkgear 100 or something else? That one seemed expensive
compare to the Meraki Mini or WGT63U.

-bn

On Feb 7, 2008 12:31 PM, Bob Keyes <bob at sinister.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am interested in porting CuWIN to the Netgear WGT634U, which I have
> about 30 of, and my friend has about 50 of. They are very similar to the
> Meraki Mini and the FON, but better, because they have mini-PCI socketed
> Atheros cards and a USB 2.0 controller. Considering the low price of USB
> flash these days, I plan on taking advantage of this (I only wish there
> were right-angle or short USB extender cables that were cheap - having the
> USB flash stick out of the unit like that makes it physically vulnerable
> to being bumped).
>
> What I'd like to know, is how to go from NetBSD source to CuWIN - i.e. how
> to do the vast amount of binary shrinkage needed to fit on small flash
> devices. I know there's a tool, I can't remember the name of it now, that
> combines a bunch of BSD binaries into one executable, making it smaller.
> But this didn't seem to save much, because of the large size of libraries
> needed (Maybe I should have built everything static?).
>
> I am a Linux guy, and know some BSD, but the current broken-ness of
> madwifi-ng is making me want to move to the BSD camp, and that means
> CuWIN.
>
> There's also a new Atheros based board coming out from linkgear.jjplus.com
> which is really nice. The main developer is a friend of mine. I'd like to
> be able to get CuWIN and BSD onto that box. He's very much a Linux guy,
> I'd like to introduce him to the possibilities of the BSD world (Net,
> Open, Free).
>
> -Bob
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