Updates

Ok, so there's more than meets the eye to the updates with Palmnet.

This time it really is a LOT more secure and makes my life a breeze now. It's also wider to let you guys see more content, which is always a bonus. Another good point is that it's a few steps closer to being viable for OSS, which will mean that some of you might actually be able to have a sweet site like me

In other update-news, I started and soon finished an odd little VB6 toy when I was last messing with the NetTest and such, go check it out: http://software.palmnet.me.uk/files/radar_avoid.exe

I also am about 50% done with the new blog script. The new blog should be just like this...only it'll actually work!
Some of the functionality of BoastMachine will be left out because it's pointless, and I'll hopefully have a small and safe blog at the end of the day. Which is hopefully going to be soon.

And going back to my post on hacking my router...Great progress!
Just today I managed to find out that I can list files and such using the echo command, how I didn't know this before is anyones guess.
I also managed to find out that there is a secret command, sh, that takes me into the BusyBox shell:

> sh


BusyBox v1.00 (2006.03.27-10:18+0000) Built-in shell (msh)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

# help

Built-in commands:
-------------------
        . : break cd continue eval exec exit export help login newgrp
        read readonly set shift times trap umask wait [ busybox cat cp
        df dmesg echo expr false ifconfig init insmod kill klogd ledctrl
        linuxrc ln logger logread lsmod mkdir mount msh ping ps pwd reboot
        rm rmmod route sendarp sh sysinfo syslogd tar test tftp tftpd
        true tty vconfig wget

#

How nifty is that!

Main problem is that the filesystem is read-only. But as you can update the firmware there must be a way round it...it's only a matter of time :P
I'm thinking about mounting one of the various things in /dev/ to see what happens, there's a fair few things in /dev/:

# echo /dev/*
/dev/bcm /dev/bcmaal20 /dev/bcmadsl0 /dev/bcmatm0 /dev/bcmendpoint0 /dev/bcmles0 /dev/bcmvdsl0
/dev/brcmboard /dev/console /dev/initctl /dev/kmem /dev/log /dev/mem /dev/mtdblock0 /dev/mtdblock1
/dev/mtdblock2 /dev/mtdblock3 /dev/mtdblock4 /dev/mtdblock5 /dev/mtdblock6 /dev/mtdblock7 /dev/null
/dev/port /dev/ppp /dev/printer0 /dev/ptmx /dev/ptyp0 /dev/ptyp1 /dev/ram /dev/ram0 /dev/ram1
/dev/ram2 /dev/ram3 /dev/tty /dev/tty0 /dev/tty1 /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyp0 /dev/ttyp1 /dev/zero

Still, if anyone has any ideas on what I could do with my router now I can fiddle, or knows how to get round it being read-only, gimmie a shout, please!

Oh, and for the more geeky among you:

# cat proc/cpuinfo
system type             : 96348GW-10
processor               : 0
cpu model               : BCM6348 V0.7
BogoMIPS                : 254.77
wait instruction        : no
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 32
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : no
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available