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Date: Thursday, April 5, 2007 - 11:17 am

Hello all,

I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. 
The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The 
telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't 
even set up SNMP or VLANs) and the webinterface only works correctly 
with Internet Explorer.

Now during the bootup messages I see that the processor is an ARM946E-S. 
Since OpenBSD should run on ARM processors (armish port?) I wonder if it 
would be possible to replace the current firmware with an OpenBSD install.

To upgrade the firmware, you need two images, a "boot" image and 
"software" image.

But before I get started, would this even be possible? I'm already 
having a hard time screwing open the device :-(.

You have to keep in mind I'm no good at programming, I know very little 
C beyond hello world, let alone booting such a piece of hardware.

Thanks,

Glenn
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running OpenBSD on switch hardware, RedShift, (Thu Apr 5, 11:17 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, RedShift, (Fri Apr 6, 4:26 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Stuart Henderson, (Fri Apr 6, 5:08 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Karl Sjödahl - dunceor, (Thu Apr 5, 12:52 pm)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Douglas Allan Tutty, (Thu Apr 5, 8:51 pm)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Karl Sjödahl - dunceor, (Fri Apr 6, 2:36 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Siju George, (Thu Apr 5, 8:34 pm)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Steve Shockley, (Thu Apr 5, 10:22 pm)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Sam Fourman Jr., (Thu Apr 5, 10:32 pm)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Siju George, (Fri Apr 6, 6:51 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, RedShift, (Fri Apr 6, 3:25 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, rc, (Fri Apr 6, 4:54 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Claudio Jeker, (Fri Apr 6, 6:09 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Toni Mueller, (Fri Apr 20, 3:48 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Claudio Jeker, (Fri Apr 20, 4:42 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Pete Vickers, (Fri Apr 20, 6:53 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Stuart Henderson, (Fri Apr 20, 4:36 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, RedShift, (Fri Apr 6, 7:35 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, rc, (Fri Apr 6, 3:14 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, tb@tbits.net, (Fri Apr 6, 4:56 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Reyk Floeter, (Fri Apr 6, 7:38 am)
Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware, Diana Eichert, (Thu Apr 5, 11:48 pm)
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