I recently mentioned my EPIA MII-based system. The EPIA MII is a highly integrated mainboard from Via’s Embedded division that comes in the itsy-tiny Mini-ITX form factor. I originally bought it way back together with a Casetronic Travla C158 case to be the base for an OpenWrt-based UMTS router. However I never got around it… Continue reading My EPIA MII-based system
Author: Pieter Hollants
Google TechTalk-Presentation on CoreBoot
While (after years) re-checking out the possibilities to get the built-in CompactFlash slot of my EPIA MII board (which I’ll blabla about in a later post) bootable, I stumbled over this really interesting YouTube capture of a Google TechTalk on Coreboot, a project aiming at providing an Open Source alternative to the common PC BIOS.
Hacking the Netgear WG102 Access Point
This article describes my experiences while conducting some reverse engineering of the Netgear WG102 firmware. For one thing, you might learn something about the approaches and methods useful when you want to find out “how they did that” (they = the device’s manufacturer) in general, on the other hand there is also a lot of WG102 resp. Netgear-specific information in here, of course.