Following will give you some idea, althouth this is for 802.11b http://instant802.com/openap1.htm Usman Mario Lopez wrote:
--Hi, I use for my broadband connection a Efficient Network 5660 router, I have opened it to check what the hell is inside it and have seen a PowerPC board (or at least it looks like) looking at the kernel load messages through the serial cable I see messages that tell me that the router is using a PowerPC MPC850 SAR, this looks like a standard Motorola PowerPC microprocessor and maybe a sort of standard board (except for the ATM nic). My question is... would it be possible to upload a Linux Kernel to the flash?, it actually has VxWorks wich does its job quite well (routing) but it would be interesting to try something on it, it could be a quite cheap platform for embedded development. The only way I can think on uploading a Kernel is through the serial connection, it has a boot loader that is used to load new kernels using xmodem, but what I dont know is if the format of this image file that is uploaded I guess it may have some kind of compression. By the type of microprocessor used I guess the board is something similar to this. http://www.embeddedplanet.com/products/lite.asp Has anyone tryed something similar?. Any ideas?.. any mailing list more apropiate for this kind of questions?. Thanks. Mario. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
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