NSLU2

Network Storage Link for Usb 2.0

The box

How it’s supposed to be used.

Thank you Amazon.com for the pictures….

Great Quote from Linksys

"While Linksys does not support any of the alternate firmware available for the NSLU2, we are always delighted to see a product gain such widespread acceptance.

Like the similar community that emerged to enhance the WRT54G before it, the creativity and ingenuity of Linksys customers inspires us to continually improve our products."

-- Mike Wagner, Director of Marketing, Linksys.

Technical Details

Announced June 2004 ARM Processor 133 MHz/266 MHz 64 MB RAM 16 MB FLASH 2 USB ports (Flash or HD/NTFS) 10/100 Ethernet NIC 5V 0.6 A

Modifications

add USB HUBadd Serial PortOverClockForce Power OnPower Slug from USB

Slug -> Peripheral

SlugPower - USB-controlled power switch SlugTerm - USB keyboard and 4x20 LCD

display SlugBee - Remote data logging using

Zigbee radio modules WinTVPVR SlugPalmTerm - Palm as LCD display and

terminal Twonky/Itunes(DAAP) - media server

Firmware Options

SlugOS/BE formerly OpenSlug from OpenEmbedded (WRT54G)

SlugOS/LE formerly DebianSlug UcSlugC - embedded. Less support Unslung

IPKG Modules

ipkg list - list packages availableipkg status - list packages installedipkg install <pkg-name> - to install new

package

* Apache - Popular heavyweight web server * appWeb - Embedded Web Server * Asterisk - Open Source VoIP PBX System * BitTorrent - packaged as py-bittorrent, btdownloadcurses.py works. * ccxstream - Media streaming server for Xbox Media Center * CTorrent - BitTorrent client written in the C programming language. * CUPS - CUPS printer system. * digitemp - temperatur logger software * distcc - Distributed C/C++ compiler * DnsMasq - DNS and DHCP server * dovecot - Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems * Enhanced CTorrent - command line client for BitTorrent * extract-xiso - XBOX iso creation/extraction tool * FreeRadius - An opensource Radius server * gphoto2 - Command line digital camera software applications * gnokii - a multisystem tool suite and modem driver for the mobile phones (including smsd) * irssi - console IRC client * kissdx - a versatile PC-Link clone for KiSS media players * mc - Midnight Commander File manager * MediaWiki - The Wiki software used to run Wikipedia * Mt-daapd - iTunes Server * mutt - text mode mail client * MySQL - The most popular Open Source SQL Database * nagios-plugins - Plugins for the nagios network monitor program * Nail - Mail client * NanoBlogger - a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line * nbench-byte - BYTE's Native Mode Benchmarks * ncFTP - A user friendly FTP client with background spooling. * net-snmp - The opensource implementation of snmp * Nethack - Greatest RPG of all time * netio - A cross platform network benchmark tool for tcp and udp. * nrpe - Nagios remote program execute daemon * Nfs-utils - The recommended NFS server * Ntpclient - Network Time Protocol client * OpenSSH - the recommended SSH server * phpMyAdmin - Web-based administration for MySQL * postgresql - scalable, SQL compliant, object-relational database management system * proftpd - Highly configurable and feature packed FTP server * python - An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language * qemu - An processor emulator - allows running i386 binaries on the slug * samba - Samba 3.0.14a-4 on Unslung 4.2x beta * ser - SIP Express Router * tftp-hpa - A simple tftp package * torrent - Torrent processing scripts for libbt * Transmission - Lightweight BitTorrent client and daemon with WWW interface * unfs3 - User-space NFS V3 server (not recommended - use nfs-utils instead) * ushare - Free open source uPnP media server. * uVista - Free open source microversion of Vista Enterprise * vsftpd - Fast and secure FTP server * webalizer - server stats program. * X11 - X Windows for your slug. No display hardware so it's remote access only. * xmail - An easy(ish) to use mail server

Amateur Radio Applications

AX25 – Packet Radio Digi_ned (smart Digipeater/APRS mini-

webpage server) APRSD (old version - pre C++)

- the future Telpac Gateway JNOS (mail/packet/BBS/etc)

HamSlug by N7IPB

AX25 KernelWeb configuration UtilityDigi_ned is running:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?skagit

Links

NSUL2: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/UNSLUNG:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/HomePage

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2

WRT54G for Ham Radio: http://db0fhn-i.ampr.org/wrt54gs/

HamSlug: http://www.wetnet.net

Issues

Power on - requires modificationNetwork Access is Slow

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