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.
• 30/01/2012 - Building world/and kernel.
• 31/01/2012 - Make sure to set the Boot Options to DHCP

your choice: p - boot protocol

Choose which boot protocol to use:
 * 1 - bootp protocol
   2 - dhcp protocol
your choice: 2 - dhcp protocol

RouterBOOT booter 2.29

RouterBoard 493G

CPU frequency: 680 MHz
  Memory size: 256 MB

Press any key within 2 seconds to enter setup.

RouterBOOT-2.29

Board Info:

        Board type: 493G
     Serial number: 25E001744DD7
  Firmware version: 2.29
     CPU frequency: 680 MHz
       Memory size: 256 MB
        Build time: 2010-12-09 15:21:33
  eth1 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:60
  eth2 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:61
  eth3 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:62
  eth4 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:63
  eth5 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:64
  eth6 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:65
  eth7 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:66
  eth8 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:67
  eth9 MAC address: 00:0C:42:A9:15:68