embedded linux motherboards

[Daniel Marsh]

The $5 FON router is just a WRT54GL running a customized version of the 
open-wrt or dd-wrt firmware. I believe "hacking" the firmware on these 
is as simple as loading a new firmware image via the built in web admin 
interface. The problem is that you get the $5 router by signing up for a 
1 year contract and they reserve the right to bill you the cost 
difference if your router isn't functional a significant amount of the 
time. Apparently these things have a heartbeat signal they send out, so 
if you unload their firmware prior to the first year, they will know.

-Daniel Marsh


.Has anybody tried to hack the $5 google router?  FON
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Weston" <fweston at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:53 AM
> Subject: Re: embedded linux motherboards
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>> Try soekris, I think wisprouter.com might be another... Can't recall
>> the name off the top of my head.
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>> On 6/27/06, Henkienkatkema <zakifani at mbnet.fi> wrote:
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> I'm on a quest to find an ideal embedded linux motherboard for 
>>> wireless mast
>>> installable router/repeater box with many many mini-PCI/PCMCIA 
>>> slots. Do
>>> such things exist I wonder?
>>>
>>> - Ransu (www.tribalnetworks.org)
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