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Announcing WiFiBSD

Posted by michael on from the little-yellow-different dept.

flynn_nrg writes "WifiBSD is a minimalistic version of FreeBSD based on the 5.x branch. WifiBSD is aimed for wireless routers running on embedded devices such as boards from soekris.com. In addition to the wi driver WifiBSD includes support for Atheros's 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Chipsets. The latest version of WifiBSD can be found here."

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  1. minibsd by JDizzy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The project is based on minibsd, which is based on freebsd.

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    1. Re:minibsd by JDizzy · · Score: 4, Informative

      I'm actually friends with the guy that created wifibsd, and we both work on miniturization of freebsd, and we are both into wireless stuff. We hangout in IRC and are basically the resident 802.11 thugs. So yes, you could say I have an inside knowledge. Truth be told, Yazzy (aka Martin Jessa) finished this last night, posted a blurb in #freebsd, and then one of the lurkers posted to slashdot. So both theories are true: I got scarry knowledge of minibsd, and inside knowledge of wifibsd. What is more scarry is how the BSD community is so tightly bound together.

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  2. Mmhm. by Thornae · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...and whilst that was a nice informative article, it was also noticeably linux specific (of course, you couldn't be trolling - not with a closing line like that).
    This being the BSD area of /., I think a few BSD targetted articles on configuring WAPs
    might be more apt.

    That said, this WiFiBSD thing looks like a nice little development. Could well come in handy.

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  3. Re:Why is this a good thing? by Arandir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If this works great, than WiFi vendors don't owe the community a cent.

    BSD worked great for Apple. And guess what? They're giving back to the community! I just guess it goes to show that the public won't act like thieves when you don't treat them like thieves.

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  4. Improvements over PicoBSD? by hhw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Running a BSD based wireless router off a floppy has been possible with PicoBSD for years. I fail to see how WiFiBSD accomplishes anything, aside from distributing the floppy image, which has already been done by theWall

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  5. WirelessLeiden.nl by dirkx · · Score: 4, Informative
    Us, that is the folks at http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/ have done very much the same. Lets add the link to Subversion (cvs like source code mngt. system) with all the code - so that we can at least copy each others wheels.

    Background: http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/wcl/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ NodeFactory

    Code (in public subversion):
    http://wleiden.webweaving.org:8080/svn/node-config /factory/trunk/install/install.sh
    http://wleiden.webweaving.org:8080/svn/node-config /factory/trunk/

    Machines using the code: http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/wcl/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ NodeMap

    Though this one is a bit more fully fledged; as it also includes SNMP management and OSPF routing.

    Dw.