Friday, August 13, 2004
Hacking The Linksys NSLU2
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 02:00 PM
"When I first read the review of the new Linksys Network Storage Unit device (NSLU2) I was definitely interested. It looked to be small, silent, inexpensive and flexible enough to provide backup and file storage to my network. My only concerns were reports that it would only work with Microsoft Windows and that it formatted its disks with a proprietary filesystem ... After I hooked up an external drive, connected to it with my web browser and configured it using the web interface, the NSLU2 was serving files on my home network in no time."
Despite Linksys' documentation to the contrary, using it with MacOS X and Linux appears to be no problem at all. However, the guys over at Tom's Networking wanted to truly customize the box and for that they would need a command prompt. Well, read the article and see how they turned on telnet on this Linsys unit and were able to access a command line.
Despite Linksys' documentation to the contrary, using it with MacOS X and Linux appears to be no problem at all. However, the guys over at Tom's Networking wanted to truly customize the box and for that they would need a command prompt. Well, read the article and see how they turned on telnet on this Linsys unit and were able to access a command line.
