After having successfully installed OpenWrt on my DWL-7100AP, thanks to information on this forum, I got bitten by the OpenWrt bug.
I started looking for the next upgrade victim (and the next challenge), and I think I found it in the form of my Netgear FVS338 VPN-firewall.

Unfortunately this device is not yet supported by OpenWRT and I’m starting to realize that adding support for a new device (even if all the individual components of the device are supported) require a far lot more knowledge of the inner workings of the linux-kernel and OpenWrt than I got, so that’s why I’m writing this.

The Netgear FVS338 is a router/fw with a wan-port, 8 lan-ports and a serial-port (console). The firmware is linux-based and it uses redboot for bootstrap.

The hardware consists of:
Intel IXP422 Xscale CPU
16MB Flash (Intel JS28F128 StrataFlash)
32MB Ram (2x Mira P2V28S40CTP 128Mbit SDRAM)
WAN-port: Altima AC101LKQ 10/100 Ethernet PTY
LAN-Switch: Broadcom BCM5337M

Netgear have made the GPL-code available for download at: ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/f … rc.tar.bz2
(They use the Montavista tool chain though, so I can’t easily try to compile it.)

All this makes me believe that it would be reasonably easy to add support for the FVS338, provided that you know how to go about it.

Unfortunately many hours of google searches have showed there are a tremendous amount of texts/mails/forum-post written about linux on the arm processor, but I haven’t found much information that I feel is relevant and up to date as to how to do this.

So, anyone got some hints or information about where/how I should start?
Or does anyone with the needed expertise care to help me? :-)

(Last edited by NMI on 3 Dec 2007, 19:55)