[MLB-WIRELESS] hacking MSI RG54G2 - what it looks like inside

[David Ashburner]

>Oh, so your software development was based on the Minitar/MSI hardware
>that I have? ( http://satin.sensation.net.au/rowan/MSI_RG54G2_small.jpg )
>
Unfortunately no, it was all for the MNWAPB 11b  - the discontinued one.  
But with the cpu data sheet I can probably do the loader required to get it 
running on the Intersil chip.

>Is it commercial or are you going to share more details? :)
>
No, not commercial. I started playing with the Linksys stuff almost 2 years 
ago then when it got really hot, there was so many people doing stuff for it 
it was kind of crowded, so I hacked away at the Minitar. It's a little 
challenging as there is only 8Mb RAM but a nice bunch of people working 
together on it at rtl8181.sourceforge.net. It's kind of moot though now as 
the hardware is EOL.

Your MSI is an ARM9 procesor so I have the cross compiler and can build a 
kernel and ramdisk for it. Need to see what the bootloader does/expects and 
see what there is on terms of existing released code. If the bootloader 
allows loading an image and jumping to it them we are golden. If not it's a 
little more tricky and may not be worth the effort.

You can get the build environment from 
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/download.html  It's very easy to install and 
configure, Openwrt uses it for their packaging, in fact you can build every 
openwrt package for your arm processor if you wanted to ( but you still ony 
have 8Mbytes of RAM :)



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