linux4501 project homepage

Project description

linux4501 is a linux software distribution for the soekris net4501 single board computer.
It fits on a 16 or 32 MB Compactflash card and turns the 4501 into a firewall and (dsl) router. It can also be used as a starting point for your own development.
The distribution contains the following software:

linux kernel 2.4.19
glibc-2.2.5
openssh 3.4p1
ISC dhcp 3.0p1
ISC DNS 9.2.1
kernel driver for the net4501 error led (version 1.2)
pppd with pppoe plugin (works great - at least here in germany)
busybox-0.60.3
lots of other software like iptables, crond, logrotate etc
hundreds of thousands of messy shellscripts to glue it all together

The filesystem consists of three parts:

an intial ramdisk, acts as rootfs (ro)
a diskimage (cramfs) mounted ro as /usr
a minix fs mounted on /var for storing system configuration and logs

additionally there will be a version with everything in one minix fs for developers who want to install software on the disc.

Status

As far as I can see everything works, distribution released (version 1.1)

Roadmap

At the moment I'm working towards version 1.2. The goals for this version are

create documentation
care about error led earlier on boot
add hostap driver for the d-link dwl 520 WLAN card
allow forwarding/masq for dhcp registered clients only (dhcpd execute patch)
remove most/all executable stuff from /var and mount it with noexec option
release my scripts/code changes as a separate package

Download

Have a look at the files section at the project page.

Documentation