Miod Vallat wrote: [...] > I am not aware of anyone working on running OpenBSD on the NSLU2, but if > you want a nice pet project to spend time on, NetBSD runs on it and > porting their code should be relatively easy to do. Of course this won't > help with the fact that the NSLU2 is horribly slow (it's not nicknamed > ``slug'' without a good reason).
There's a simple hardware mod you can do with a pair of nail clippers that removes the single resistor that's underclocking it to 133MHz. Then it runs twice as fast, at a semi-respectable 266. It's still not going to win any records, but it's more than adequate as a house router. I have had a bit of a look at the NetBSD version, but to be totally honest, all the BSDs are so similar that I don't want to look too hard unless it confuses me. My BSD-fu is certainly not sufficient to port OpenBSD myself. -- b bb o=o=o< o=o=o=o= o=o=o= o<o=o=o= bbb http://www.cowlark.com bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb b "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my b telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to b use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
