If you are not used to working with embedded systems, I found the O'Reilly book on Embedded Linux very helpful for toolchains and the like. Getting standard programs onto the AP is likely to be pretty straightforward if there's room in the FS. There won't be very much. IIRC, some (all?) dd-wrt loads support NFS.
I don't know about the open ones, but the systems I have worked on have implemented the entire AP and lower level driver as Kernel modules. Besides the addition of these modules, the rest of the kernel is probably pretty standard. If you are just interested in having mesh networking cheap, look at Meraki. OTOH, if you want to get your hands dirty, have at it. Cheers, Bob Eugene, OR - Tucson, AZ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Compton Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:00 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: [Eug-lug] Re: cheap dd-wrt capable router Hi Bob, My interests are: 1. Learning more about how to tweak and customize the router 2. Writing scripts and programs that run on the router. 3. Understanding the how the linux kernel was changed for this router. 4. Porting 802.11s (mesh networking) to run under one of the free operating systems that run on cheap routers. I could go into more detail about any of those and probably come up with a couple of others but that should give you an idea of what i want to do. - Dave Bob Carlson wrote > I have worked a lot with similar code, but not directly with dd-wrt. My work > was on Atheros based routers that were also embedded Linux. > > What exactly do you want to try and do? Run applications on top? Modify the > wifi code? > > Cheers, Bob > Eugene, OR - Tucson, AZ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Dave Compton > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:58 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: [Eug-lug] Re: cheap dd-wrt capable router > > Hi Ben, > > No, I'm not doing anything at all with the "n" part. For that matter, > I'm not doing anything interesting with the "b/g" part other than > verifying that it works. My reason for getting this router was to try > out the development environment for dd-wrt and/or other open source > router firmware. > > I don't know of *any* similarly-priced models, new or refurb, with or > without 802.11n, that support dd-wrt. There are cheaper routers but I > have not seen any that support dd-wrt. This might just show that I'm > not too good at searching but it's hard to beat $35 by much. If you or > anyone else out there knows of a cheaper dd-wrt compatible router, > please let me know. > > One reason that I didn't want to spend a lot on this router is that > there is some chance that I might ruin it. Hopefully that will not > happen but if it does, I don't want much cash invested in a paperweight. > > On the subject of writing code to run under dd-wrt, does anyone reading > this have any experience along those lines? Most of the instructions I > have seen are about recompiling/rebuilding the dd-wrt O/S but I would > rather start with a "hello world" program. > > - Dave > > > > Ben Barrett wrote: >> So are you doing anything interesting with the "n" part? Or just b/g? >> ...and, since you've done your homework, does this model provide >> substantially more RAM & CPU than similarly-priced new models (not > refurb)? >> ~ben >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Dave Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> I am interested in router hacking but didn't want to pay too much >> for a open source compatible router. This week, frys.com >> <http://frys.com> has a refurbished Netgear WNR834B(v2) 802.11n >> router for $35 - shipping included. I got one of these a couple of >> days ago and now have dd-wrt running on it. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
