This sounds interesting, and I'm puzzled why no one has replied.

Out of curiosity - I'm going to ask about the prospects of hard hacking a device like the router in question. I'm aware that I could read this up on my own, but fuck, there's already loads I'm reading up on. Might I specify this querry to your specific goals? Who would want to perform this kind of modification and for what reason? What I'm imagening is a cheaper way in obtaining a device with features comparable to general purpose PC's, embedded within a network router. Is this perception correct to some degree, or are there more to it?

I'm already reading up on soldering in general, and wish-think to read up on advanced private networking. This might indeed be very interesting. All I know about the WRT54G is that it runs on opensource software out of the box, which of course introduces certain possibilities in modifying the firmware. I have myself tried out dd-wrt on a newer Linksys router, but wasn't able to discover much purpose for it beyond the reach of the embedded firmware. That is for an ignorant end-user like myself..

I will be fully understanding if this ignorance is unrelated to your vision for this thread. I guess I'm just trying my luck.

>>587
Routers have a pretty limited amount of memory and storage (the most powerful router I have has 64MB of RAM), so by hard hacking it I can upgrade the RAM and add an SD card reader for storage. The latter of these two hacks can allow me to make a swapfile to increase memory without physically upgrading the RAM. I hope to be able to run darknet programs or games like Starcraft over wireless mesh networks by doing this.

I don't really know anything about hacking, but I'm interested in learning...
I have a WRT54G2 v1 with DD-WRT firmware, is there anything I can do with it?

I'm in the same boat as No. 589. This stuff seems interesting, but I wouldn't know where to get started at first. What should I do to learn?

>>589
>>590
Learn about Linux. Install OpenWrt on a router and run a webserver, dedicated seed box, mesh node, etc... Just keep learning.

Some links:
http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox
https://openwrt.org/
http://www.open-mesh.org/

>>610
Thanks, bro, I'm reading now.

>>611
If you're going to use Linux, you should consider learning C. It's what the Linux kernal (vmlinuz) is programmed in. This guy has exceptionally good programming tutorials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00HsZvg-V0

http://fabfi.fablab.af/index.html
They started out with Linksys WRT54GL routers, but are apparently upgrading. Pretty cool project, and sporting an extensive how-to wiki at that.

Well, I find this project interesting:
http://www.jbprojects.net/projects/wifirobot/
Note that it's described in detail, and it's possible to build for an average hobbyist (they create much more complex things nowadays).

>>1143
>manifest.json.txt
The txt shouldn't be there.
This post shouldn't be here, also.

impressive

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/87496-afganistans-diy-internet-brings-the-web-to-citizens-without-roads-and-water

>>497
I just found one lying around in a dumpster WRT54G series version 7 should I throw it away? it seems to have been a crippled version with little memory. Can anyone tell me what book that was linked to Megaupload?

Post edited on 12th Jun 2012, 4:12am

>>2028
It was this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WRT54G-Ultimate-Hacking-Asadoorian/dp/1597491667

>>2028
Never throw hardware away. I have the exact same model with DD-WRT acting as a switch because I ran out of ethernet ports on my main router. You can at least turn it into a wireless adapter for a game console.

Main router is an Asus WL-500W, modded to host the contents of my set top box hard drive via ftp.

I want to run a Tor-ifying router/middlebox in my home but I do not know where to start,what router is recommended for this ? Any good guides?



additional link for others to look in the deep future:

https://github.com/grugq/portal

Post edited on 29th Oct 2013, 10:46am

I managed to solve my own problem with this guide

http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview