Yeah, what he said too. Cheers, Bob Eugene, OR - Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Cherba Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:19 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Re: cheap dd-wrt capable router Dave, Speaking as another Embedded Linux guy, I suspect that you'll find the following: 1. This can be very fun. There are a lot of neat things you can add. 2. See number 1 3. Not as much as you might think. If memory serves that router has a 32bit broadcom MIPs processor. So it'll pretty much be a stripped down kernel. The kernel isn't were most of the difference lies, that will be in the rootfs which is normally busybox/uClibc based and highly stripped of all extraneous apps and libraries. 4. Good luck! sounds fun. Please post any questions/difficulties to the list so we can try to help out. -Mike "Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable." --— Ralph Johnson. On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:59 -0700, Dave Compton wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
