While I was in the midst of a small work crisis, SeattleWireless TV launched last night. Props to Michael and Peter for putting this together. Maybe our meeting streams will have a bit more polish to them now.
Monthly Archive for July, 2003
Rob has now written a script to allow you to put your custom firmware on the LinksysWrt54g
It’s available at http://nocat.net/download/wrtgen
It is a small perl script that generates firmware that the WRT54G will accept.
Requirements:
Features:
generates the firmware
It has been released under the GPL
Chuck is smart. Rob has successfully blasted some custom firmware onto a Linksys WRT54G.
On the agenda for tomorrow’s hack night:
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According to this mail, if you are a graphic designer and spend the hour or two needed to update the NYCWireless site, you can get a free membership as well as a foot massage by Terry Schmidt, founder of nycwireless.
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Looks like rob is stumped on the CRC bits. He’s put up a call for help and even mailed linksys. Anyone else out there with a bit of hex foo? Looks like the guys at wirelessnederland forums were the first to figure it out, but their explanation could use a little more translation 
BTW, I’ve been offered a shell on a MIPS box (cobalt qube) to compile some binaries once we have this figured out, or (according to the .nl guys), we can do this all on a playstation2. I happen to have one of those… Do I need to modchip it for that? It sure would be interesting to have a custom WAP for $130 with a $150 development platform.
Casey’s PocketSOM is on slashdot, complete with screenshot. As usual, the comments are completely on topic.
Here is the parting speech of Adam Shand, Founder of the Personal Telco Project in Portland Oregon. The recording comes from the June 2003 General Meeting.
It’s worth listening to. It’s also worth reading. The transcript is available on the PTP wiki.
- Dissasembly of the blue and grey box.
- pulling apart the firmware to get at CramFS
- Rob has broken out the hex editor and is writing notes on the header info at: LinksysWrt54g
If you’re using your 3650 primarily for pictures (and are using the sdcard), you will want to flush it regularly. It does not handle a full card gracefully. I let mine get to approximately 450 pictures and it would slow to a crawl when saving. After dumping everything to my laptop, it’s back to the normal 1 to 2 second save. I’m glad I didn’t spring for the memory upgrade now.
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