Karl Cunningham wrote:
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Thinking out loud... On the Linksys end the software would have to be
cross-compiled for the MIPS processor there, yes? It appears I can use a
2.6 kernel since I don't need the wireless to work (wireless on this
model only supported in 2.4 kernel according to openwrt.org).
Any thoughts?
The OpenWRT stuff takes care of all the cross-compiling issues. It
starts out as a make file and from there it creates some directories,
downloads everything it needs from the 'net using wget, compiles all the
tools, then builds the software and assembles it into a firmware image.
It's actually a fairly amazing process.
There's no reason you can't still use an older 2.4 kernel. The
WhiteRussian release is perfectly fine for the WRT54G. You could just
use the prebuilt image to play around with until you are comfortable.
There are plenty of prebuilt packages also.
The Kamikaze branch has more packages available and is the current
development branch so if you need something new that may be the right
choice.
You might be able to just use netcat to get/send data, like so:
# netcat -l 1234 <> /dev/ttyS1
I haven't tried this yet.
Gus
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