[OpenWrt-Users] Hi!

[David Goodenough]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Daniel Aquino wrote:
> Whats up ...
>
> This is my first post to the mailing list!
>
> I was about to sell this cisco 806 router I have had sitting around
> for years...!!
If it is very old it may well not have sufficient resources to run 
Linux.  It needs a minimum of 4MB Flash and 8MB RAM to run something
like OpenWrt.  You can fit OpenWrt on 2MB Flash, but it is a real 
shoe-horn job.

If you open up the box, identify any large chips and look them up on the web.
That will give you an idea as to the Flash and RAM that is available.
>
> But then I got the idea that it would be a perfect experiment to play
> with an embedded Linux...
>
> I love my Iptables...
>
> I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on the first
> steps to figuring out if the hardware on this router has any support
> at all...
>
> Motorola CPU: XPC855TZP50D4
You would need to search the web and look to see if this CPU is 
on the supported list for Linux.  I am not even sure what family
of processor this is.  On the Freescale site it is described as 
a communications controller, but little more (I do not have a 
subscription to any of the datasheet sites).

David
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