Re: Linux on Linksys PSUS4?

[Andrew Wiley <debio264@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>wrote:

> Le Tuesday 28 April 2009 13:58:38 Andrew Wiley, vous avez écrit :
> > I stumbled onto this website while doing some research on a Linksys
> > printserver I retired a while back (the firmware kept crashing, but I
> don't
> > think it was a hardware problem), and I'm wondering if it would be
> possible
> > to install Linux on it. It has an ADM5120P, and the hardware seems to be
> > supported, but how would I go about installing anything? Is there a
> serial
> > port header that I need to use? Would using it equate to soldering a
> serial
> > port to it?
>
> Soldering a seria port is not an option if you want to do something serious
> with it.


Then how would it normally be done? I'm hoping to do this more for the
experience than for the final product, if only because there's a chance that
the reboot problem is hardware related, and the whole box is fairly useless
right now.


>
>
> > Is it even feasible to have a linux system running on 1MB of flash and 4
> MB
> > of RAM?
>
> That's too small you would need at least 2MB Flash and 8MB RAM.


Could 2MB hold a full kernel? If I can compile in the right USB drivers, I
can put the rootfs on a flash drive in the USB port (this is a printserver,
so it has one), right?


Andrew Wiley

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