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Turning The SEGA Dreamcast Into A Linux Router

Posted by timothy on from the plastic-and-silicon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This highly detailed 101-page how-to article provides the necessary background and procedures to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming console into a Linux-based router with firewalling and virtual private networking capabilities. The article explains how to create the necessary toolchain for compiling both programs and the Linux kernel, and shows how, starting from scratch, you can build a Linux operating system that runs entirely in memory."

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  1. Broadband Adapter by Samus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have an old dreamcast laying around that I would love to do some of these things with but I lack the broadband adapter. I suspect many people out there are in the same boat. Is there some other hack out there that slaps a network card onto this thing or am I just out of luck?

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    1. Re:Broadband Adapter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I've never heard of one, but you can still find dreamcast broadband adapters for ~50-100 bucks on ebay.

      Sometimes you can find a LAN adaptor (model number HIT-300) that doesn't work with released games and needs a slightly different driver. That'll work for ya too.

      http://www.lik-sang.com/ seems to occasionally get both varieties in stock, if you don't like ebay.

      If course, if you just want to program the thing you can put together a PCdreamcast serial cable for 15 bucks or so.

  2. you got it backwards! by mpweasel · · Score: 5, Funny

    What I'd like to see is instructions on how to turn an old linux router into a top-o-the-line gaming console.

  3. Router? by foxtrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a Dreamcast.

    I have a Broadband adapter.

    The Broadband adapter's plugged into the Dreamcast-- and there's no place to plug in another one.

    Seems to me that a router with only one ethernet port is kinda limited in functionality...

    -JDF