Hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:59:13 +0000 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What seems great about OpenWRT is the possibility of installing > > packages. Only debian packages made for OpenWRT. I guess I'll have to > > learn about that... > > Me too. I would also like to learn how to cross compile packages for the > router on my desktop. If I could prepare an embedded Gentoo image for my > router with the applications of my choice that would be grand. I'm currently running a heavily customized OpenWRT (Kamikaze, i.e. development tree) on my WAP54g, wich only has one ethernet port and WLAN AP facilities and has only 8MB RAM/2MB Flash and also a damned broken TFTP boot (doesn't initialize the PHY correctly). But it works :-) My suggestion for gentoo-running fellows would be to check out the development tree (using subversion) and just build the image from scratch. It's not more complicated than configuring (they use the buildroot environment from busybox, which is based on Kconf) your kernel and you have plenty of options. Remember to put your router in a state where the bootloader looks for an image via TFTP first before booting the flash root image, and then just experiment happily away. There's always the option to go back to the original firmware, so no worries. Don't think, however, that you'll have an easy time to mock up Gentoo to crosscompile for that environment, though it should be possible, of course. If you are happy with what OpenWRT offers by default (and there's plenty of packages!), just use a ready-made image and install packages using the "ipkg" tool. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
