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Well after reading about al the fun hacking the Linksys Wireless Router WRT54G, I decided to give it a try. It turns out to be easy if you are a little persistent.

Linksys has been making these ubiquitous 802.11g routers on a Linux base under the GPL license and publishing the source code as required by GPL. This of course led to a community of people modifying the source or using other flavors of Linux to add features to the standard router.

HOWEVER, Linksys switched away from Linux for the latest version(v5) of the WRT54g making it nearly impossible to modify. Linksys also said they would sell the version 4 routers under the model WRT54GL. Of course it doesn’t look like that commitment is going to last very long. There is a wide spread rumor that Linksys was discontinuing the L model.

As you can imagine the race to find V4 routers is on! I found one at our local Office Dpot burried in the back of a large stack of V5 routers. I’ve spent some time this weekend upgrading and I will post my results on here shortly.

Wireless Home Music Broadcasting–Modifying the NSLU2 to Unleash Your Music – Linux Journal

As many of you know the inexpensive Linksys Network Attached Storage (NAS) device is imminently “hackable” to provide many more services than just NAS.. This device, often called the slug, is intended to interface two external harddrives to your wired home network for file storage / backup. The slug runs Linux and has an ethernet 10/100 port and two USB 2.0 ports.
The link above is to an article in Linux Journal explaining how to turn this device into am mt-daapd serer. This will allow any mt-daapd aware software such as iTunes, to find and use the slug as a music store. In the article a Roku soundbridge hooks up your home stereo! The protocol even supports playlists an genres for a complete solution.

If you’d like to explore the things you can do with a slug, You can browse the Unslung project pages. This is one of the most popular firmware replacement sites. Here, you can find a list of projects you can do with your slug.
Have some hobbyist fun with a small investment!

Here is an affiliate link to Amazon for an NSLU2.