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On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 09:45, Tommy B wrote: |
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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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We purchased one of these yesterday afternoon. After a bunch of |
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search/read/destroy I found the OpenWRT project myself and decided to |
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gave it a try. |
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It was incredibly easy to get going and I'm quite impressed with the |
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capabilities of this device. |
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I did manage to find myself modifying some of the .mk files, so I could |
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have newer (bug fixed) versions of software such as dropbear_sshd that |
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has a bug with pty handling in the 0.39 version thats in CVS right now. |
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http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES |
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If all continues to go well this will become my new indoor CPE of choice |
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when coupled with a decent dbi omni directional antenna and an outdoor |
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soekris on a stick http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/batlab/ at the head |
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acting as the gateway from roooftop to rooftop citywide just in time for |
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the G8 Summit this year. |
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Also of interest is a newer NoCat(Spash|Auth) replacement called WiFiDog |
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http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog/FlowDiagram which looks very |
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promising. |
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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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Who should I send patches and updates to? |
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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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