http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/1749217&mode=thread&tid=117&tid=137&tid=193&tid=99 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/0111209&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=167&tid=187&tid=99 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/2121234&mode=thread&tid=117&tid=137&tid=193&tid=99 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/1350217&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=117&tid=137&tid=185&tid=193&tid=99
Maybe there is more information in those stories. This might be the first step to reverse engineering these products to make it possible to load them with custom firmware.
--rick
Torsten Schlabach wrote:
Dear list,
I am not entirely sure I am asking the right community for some help, but let's try.
A lot of people (including myself) have a need for *cheap* simple diskless hassle-free networking appliances that might be used as webservers, VPN routers or whatever services that might be offered on a network using a box that has no more than limited CPU power (some ARM or MIPS CPU), some RAM and some Flash file system.
There is a lot of those boxes available designed as "embedded linux controllers" and the like, but they often get more expensive than a full-fledged PC which is not the purpose. (At least not for my project.)
Therefore I wonder if anyone ever did any work to use Linux on a device such as the popular DSL routers you can get anywhere for about 100 USD. In my view they should have all the hardware you need and they support flashing a new operating software into them. My guess would be they are some sort of ARM or MIPS architecture so this should be doable.
Any thoughts or pointers to any projects? I just don't know where to start.
Kind regards,
Torsten
-- Rick Low Ottawa, Canada rDOTlowATcomputerDOTorg
