The Ignorant Hack

Category: FreeBSD

  • How to fry a router, in X easy steps: The Serial Console

    I’ve started to hack on my DLink DIR-825 B1 to get it running FreeBSD and have had some great success.  Adrian Chadd, adrian@freebsd.org put together a build system for this router and committed some of the needed changes to get this Atheros MIPS 24k based router working for us and I’ll try to document my […]

  • The sacrifices we must make for science!

    Interesting day on the phone with DLink.  When I say “day”, I do mean DAY.  More or less, Monday must be DLink’s crazy time when everyone comes back from work and finds their office routers dead or something. The DIR-825 model C1 that I initially bought to test out MIPS on FreeBSD died a noble […]

  • Getting super social with Bacon

    After getting this blog online, I was able to hook it to my twitter account, supposedly.  The entire purpose of getting a http://rootbsd.net virtual machine, IP, domain name and trying to understand how computers work was so that I could post things in more than 140 characters. I was quite suprised at the quality of […]