Hacking the Actiontec 56k Modem/Gateway

william_lorenz writes "The Actiontec Dual 56k External Modem is an inexpensive device with a built-in 56k modem and two Ethernet ports that can be used as an Internet gateway of sorts. What's great about it is that it runs some form of uClinux, it's easily hackable, and Greg Boehnlein of the Linux Users Group of Cleveland and NOOSS fame recently contributed a detailed report on his findings! Pictures of the board are also available here, here, and here. Lots of specific details are included in Greg's article, and there's been some further discussions about this on the LUGC mailing lists."

Comments

yeah....

[quizwedge]

but does it run Linux? :ducks:

Re:Is the page being served by that modem?

[Matthias Wiesmann]

Anyway, it seems a bit silly to try to make something useful out of rather old hardware.

You must be new here, this is slashdot, you know...

What next? RAID-5 using a stack of 8 inch floppies?

This has been done already albeit using 3.5'' floppies.

56K probably too small for /.

[valentyn]

/. editors should have known that a 56K connection can be /.-ed all too easy... ;-)