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Dear fellow embedded geeks, |
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I'm an unabashed lover of embedded systems and computing. I've hung out |
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on gentoo-embedded and had great discussions with pebenito, solar, and |
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dragonheart whom I have a lot of respect for. My old handle was |
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gentoo_newb1e, but now it's [g2], which is shorter. |
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The Linksys wrt54g Access Point is a 200Mhz mips processor with 16MB of |
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ram, 4MB of flash, a 4-port 10/100 switch, 10/100 Internet port, and |
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802.11b/g wireless. This is the latest v2 hardware (the 1.0,1.1 has a |
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125Mhz mips processor). Cost $80-90 US. |
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The Openwrt project provides just about everything you need to do |
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embedded programmer on this box including: |
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1) Complete tool chain of the latest uClibc, binutils, gcc-3.3.3. |
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2) Complete root_fs with kernel, iptables, ipkg, telnetd, httpd |
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built from the ground up. |
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3) Ipkg packages for kismet_drone, nfs, strace, and others. |
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4) Builds everything from scratch in a normal user account in 1-2 |
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hours if you've got a quick cpu and big interet pipe. |
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5) squashfs, jffs2 r/w with failsafe boot. |
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Thanks go to [mbm] for base core and mjn3 who forward-ported the uclibc |
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buildroot and toolchain. |
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NOTE: The fix for the v2 hw is not in CVS yet, but should be in real |
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soon. Be sure to read the warnings and make sure boot_wait=on and is |
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commited to the flash before reflashing. |
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For general information about the wrt54g see |
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http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g |
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For information about the OpenWrt see http://openwrt.ksilebo.net/ |
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Happy embedding, |
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Tommy B |
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