On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:44:42AM -0700, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
Marc, the goal is not to build it from commodity parts, but to learn how to build such systems in general :) From scratch, starting with custom kernel build, then tailored busybox, then web management and stuff...
You are talking software here. So, do it yourself. Start by recompiling DD-WRT and download the firmware, see if it works. Then you can do it even more low-level. You can even choose how much low-level you want to be, while still remaining software-oriented.
Another approach could be a hardware approach: taking an Ethernut (http://www.ethernut.de/), add-on a USB child card, and develop the drivers for the interface.
That will be very teachy!
that's what I call open source: working with the source :-)
You are right.