Running on embedded hardware

[Jan Luehr]

Hello,

Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Juliusz Chroboczek:
> > I'm trying to run a tor client on my router in order anomyise my network.
> > - System is: Asus WL-500G (32MB Ram)
>
> Nice router.  The CPU is a 260 MHz MIPS core from Broadcom that
> implements almost all of the MIPS32 instruction set (the one exception
> being the WAIT instruction).
>
> > - OS is: OpenWRT whiterussian (Linux: 2.4.30)
>
> Switch to Kamikaze.  It's much more pleasant to work with, and I've
> found it to be somewhat more stable than Whiterussian.

er, is it "offiical released" by now? Last time I checked it was in some kind 
of pre-beta-release (without webgui, etc.)

> > I built tor with ./configure --prefix=/opt/tor -with-libevent-dir
> > (...) --with-ssl-dir (...)
>
> You're cross-compiling, so you'll probably want to say something like
>
>   CC=mipsel-linux-gcc CFLAGS='-Os -march=mips32' ./configure --whatever

I'm not crosscompiling. 

> > --- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) ---
> > +++ killed by SIGILL +++
>
> As coderman noted, this might indicate a mis-compiled binary.  Make
> sure you compile for MIPS32, and that you use at least gcc 3.4.4.
>
> Upgrading to Kamikaze is good, since it will have been compiled with
> a more recent release.

Well, compiling without threads solved the issue. However, surfing is somehow 
slow compared to my notebook.

Keep smiling
yanosz