Recommended Debian Packages ------------------------------ **set locale first if it isn't?** General: htop iftop lsof git-core build-essential screen python ipython nginx vim nano subversion man More specific: uaputl uapevent Configuring as a general purpose router/gateway ----------------------------------------------------- http://blog.bertelsen.co/2011/06/setting-up-guruplug-as-router-with.html http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_GuruPlug_to_be_a_WiFi_Access_Point OpenWRT Experimentation ========================== Setup UIC (http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/uci): aptitude install cmake lua liblua5.1-0 lublua5.1-0-dev mkdir ~/src; cd ~/src git clone git://nbd.name/uci.git cmake . make make install mkdir -p /etc/config Setup LuCI (https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=155672): aptitude install ncurses-dev pkg-config Setup Troubleshooting ----------------------- Needed to install `locales` package, then `dpkg-reconfigure locales`. Reset Password ----------------- Add 'init=/bin/bash' to boot args in u-boot. This can be accomplished on a one-time basis by connecting to the serial port, power cycling and interrupting the boot process (you only have a couple seconds to do this!), then entering: setenv x_bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 init=/bin/bash' boot Open Problems ---------------- apt/dpkg is very slow; need to tune kernel fs parameters to keep package lists in memory? figure out how to install AP mode drivers on freedom-maker image. Other Stuff ------------ plan9 on a shevaplug: http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=125849399830547&w=2 nick daly's instructions: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver/