Warner's Random Hacking Blog

A while ago, I added a serial port to the D-LINK DIR-615 (HW Rev A1). Today, I'll document how I did it. First, you'll need a level...

This time I'll explore some of the issues relating to hacking on older hardware. I'll talk about expanding the work I did for the O...

Regular readers of this column know that I have a large collection of PC Cards. Some would say 'too large' and I'm not sure the...

After applying John Bladwin's MPSAFE patches to the ex driver, the ex driver works with the Olicom OC-2220. If you are unfamiliar with ...

Since I've been maintaining the PC Card layer in FreeBSD, I've accumulated a lot of PC Card hardware. Well over 100 different PC Ca...

Plat'Home has generously shipped me an OpenMicroServer. Plat'Home has been doing Emebedded things for years in Japan. They used to...

This weekend, I've committed more mips support code. Everything except for the tool chain is now in the tree. The tool chain will be p...

I've started committing FreeBSD/mips to the tree. It includes support for the ADM5120 SoC, a generic MIPS 4Kc in a Malta board, the IDT...

Hello from Tokyo. Today we had a developer summit at AsiaBSDCon 2008. We talked about a number of items. We talked about the FreeBSD/mips:...

If you go buy a D-LINK DIR-615, make sure that it is hardware revision A1. Hardware revision B2 has less flash (only 4MB) and RAM (16MB) an...

The other day I saw that Target was selling the D-LINK DIR-615 draft N router for $50.00 each. Since it had been a while since I purchased ...

Thanks to some encouragement from Gavin Atkinson, I have been able to boot the AVILA kernel on my Linksys NSLU2 (slug). I have it running o...

Today I'm writing about the Buffalo LinkStation PC-L4PWAP. It was on clearance at Circuit City, so I thought I'd take a chance and ...

I was looking over some code for someone today. They were having problems with preemption in the write routine and couldn't understand ...

I went to my old house yesterday. Like many others, my old house hasn't sold in a while. There was a showing today, so I had to shovel...

Let's say you want to create a ram disk for a kernel, or a ufs image for an emulator. To make it interesting, the image needs to be in ...

Way back in the days of yore, when Turbo C++ had just came out, I was using a DEC Rainbow 100B+. For those not old enough to recall, this w...

A few weeks ago, I wrote up how to make a bootable i386 image. People have been asking me to extend it for my ARM platform. Here are the in...

Wired has a great article about the high precision hobbyist timing community. These folks are less fanatical about timing than the professi...

Last week I started at Cisco. The entire week I tried to figure out how to drink from a fire hose without getting hurt. This week, I'l...