Hacking Linksys router

Hi all,

I want to run a small webserver (some 2 lines of html if it can maybe more later,...) on my linksys wireless router (WAG54G).

I don't want to install linux or openwrt on it. Is this possible ?


thanks

This depends on several issues:

1. Does the router have flash-based firmware? If it doesn't, forget the whole thing because you will have to solder and unsolder rom chips (and only if they are not embedded) and find a way to debug with this constraint.

2. How much free flash space is available? You will have to add a firmware patch, so there must be enough free space to add your patch.

3. Can you figure out how and where to patch? You must be able to analyze the machine language code to figure out where and how to install your patch.

4. You must have a small-footprint web server that you can cross-compile for the router's cpu.

All in all, this sounds like a formidable project!

Definite easiest way is to get a router
that supports USB support and ftp
hosting firmware. Then just
plug in USB device and
configure router to
host flash storage
device as an ftp.