Still hacking…
netsec June 18th, 2006
I’ve got the DD-WRT firmware running on my WRT54GL router, and it looks pretty good. I’ve got Chilispot running to allow people to access the FON network with it, and need to add a script to “phone home” to FON, letting them know that I’m open for business.
I could save a huge chunk of my power bill by hacking a SD socket onto my WRT and using it for a larger filesystem — the result is a embedded linux box with no moving parts and a wall wart instead of a computer power supply, fans, hard drives, motherboard, etc.
The FON software is nice, it apparently defaults to locking the wireless users out of the rest of the network; in essence, putting the wireless users in their own DMZ. That’s a bit of a problem for my wife’s laptop, but she doesn’t share a lot of data with the internal systems. I may run my existing wireless router with access to the network for her (since it’s also the ethernet switch for realitycheckBBS and use the WRT for FON use only.
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August 30th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Hi,
It’s very nice to read your article, I have a FON WRT54GL router as well, I wanted to have it changeo dd-wrt firmware, but the link you provided is dead now, can you help me on reflash the firmware to dd-wrt while keep the FON function? Thanks a lot!