FreeBSD on the TP-LINK WR-1043nd

Please visit http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-wifi-build/wiki/TpLinkTLWR1043ND .

• Atheros AR9132
• 32mb RAM
• 8mb flash
• AR9130 WMAC
• AR9102 2.4ghz radio Baseband
• RTL8366RB switch PHY (datasheet: rtl8366_8369_datasheet_1-1.pdf)

• Ships with linux firmware (with commercial atheros binary drivers)
• OpenWRT works (w/ ath9k)

• Onboard, requires 3.3v → RS232 level converter
• Defaults to 115200 8N1

The ethernet and Wireless MAC requires this in hints to pick up the flash MAC address:

{ hint.arge.0.eeprommac=0x1f01fc00 hint.ath.0.eepromaddr=0x1fff1000 }

(Although why every unit seems to have the same ethernet MAC here is beyond me..)

• FreeBSD-HEAD boots, both via netboot and flash
• Functioning ethernet (but not bridge PHY support)
• USB functions
• WMAC support (AR9130) in -HEAD
• An example, functioning kernel config is in HEAD - sys/mips/conf/TP-WN1043ND

• http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-wifi-build/wiki/TpLinkTLWR1043ND