Recommended Debian Packages
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**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

See James' email:

    Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:06:27 -0400
    From: James Valleroy <james.valleroy@gmail.com>
    To: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
    Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] WiFi


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
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plan9 on a shevaplug: http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=125849399830547&w=2

nick daly's instructions: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver/