Introduction

• Device : ​http://routerboard.com/RB493G
• Mission : Install FreeBSD on it to run it as home router.
• Reason : a) Energy consumption vs Performance: Low powered high specs device. b) Getting FreeBSD to run on MIPS based devices. c) Work with large amount of Ethernet ports.

Tech

• AR7161 MIPS 24k (mips32r2) 680MHz PCI, GMII/RGMII/MII (GigE), UART, USB 2.0, PCM, I2S

References

• ​http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips
• ​http://loos.no-ip.org/routerboard/
• ​http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2011-January/001371.html

Status

• 30/01/2012 - Board is not booting yet.