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    • Diamond Digital R100 (Mitsubishi Electrical)

    Manufacturers Info

    This wireless device is a consumer wireless gateway

    • Wireless AP
    • WAN Port
    • 4 Port LAN Switch
    • Paralell Port for Printer Server
    • USB Port for Printer / USB Camera
    • Web Interface for Configuration
    • Power Pack, Network Cable and CD-ROM for recovery

    Purchasing

    These items are End of Line as far as I know

    www.dealsdirect.com.au had them running out for as little as $49.95 + ph

    If you can get your hands on one spend the money, its a lot of fun and and stable device

    There was also a bulk buy so there are a number out there in the hands of members

    Technical Information

    Under the hood

    • Bootloader: PMON
    • System-On-Chip: Broadcom 4710
    • CPU Speed: 125 Mhz
    • Flash size: 4 MB
    • RAM: 16 MB
    • Wireless: Mini-PCI Broadcom WL-120G
    • Ethernet: two network interface, one for 4 LAN ports, one for WAN port, no VLAN tagging
    • USB: 1xUSB 1.1
    • LPT: yes
    • Serial: yes, with external UART
    • JTAG: no
    • MiniPCI Slot
    • u-Fl to rpSMA pigtail, allows replacement of mini PCI card

    Hackable? YES! Whats not to hack

    This is identical to an ASUS WL500G unit, in fact it is made by ASUS and rebadged to Diamond Data.

    Forum

    there is an entire forum dedicated to hacking this unit
    wl500g.info

    Firmwares and Hacking Support

    This unit is able to run various types of firmware that were started with the Linksys WRT54G and hence the names:

    To flash the firmware

    Be sure to get the firmware for broadcom (bcrm) mips when downloading the firmware, as there are a number of choices

    When in doubt read the instructions or ask advice from someone else who has done it.

    There isn’t much to lose, as the unit can be put back to recovery mode and you can put the old firmware on

    All you will lose is your configuration time.

    Be sure not to forget the last IP you leave your device on by default it is 192.168.1.1 so that is a good place to start looking

    1. Install the windows r100 software
    2. Set IP on your PC to 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1
    3. Run the software and browse to the location of the .trx to install
    4. Attach a lan cable from your PC to the r100
    5. Press Black button next to power supply on R100
    6. Hold Button and insert power, may need extra hands, now you are in “Recovery Mode”
    7. Continue to hold button for 3 seconds
    8. Wait for 1-20 seconds
    9. You should see “Success” or something to that effect
    10. If not repeat from step 5, it doesn’t always happen first time

    What advantages does a custom firmware have

    The reason we run a custom firmware as it allows the unit to have altered/improved functionality

    1. Run as a client
    2. Run as a OSPF,BGP IP router
    3. Run as a Mesh device (OLSR routing)
    4. Run a OpenSource operating system with command line interface
    5. Modify the wireless card to greater tx power and rx sensitivity

    Hacking Requires Linux Skills

    Don’t expect the hacking process to be easy

    there are a number of hurdles:

    • using vi as a text editor
    • understanding non volatile ram
    • understanding the init scripts
    • understaning a bridge
    • learning ipkg

    There are lots of resources about Linux out there

    Modifications

    Given the number of interfaces there are a great number of affordable modifcations:

    1. Attach a USB mass storage device
    2. Replace the Wireless Card with Prism 2511M, Atheros CM9, Sr2, Sr5, for 802.11a or Better Sensitivity and Transmission Power
    3. Attach power cycle relay to parallel port
    4. Attach Security USB Camera
    5. Attach a USB wireless interface

    Opening up the case

    The screws are under the little rubber feet
    Pull the rubber feet off with a finger nail
    You waranttee is now void

    Software Solutions

    As you are running a Linux Operating System Space and CPU willing there is nothing you cannot do

    • Network monitoring via crond, snmp, rrdtool, perl, python etc (later relies on usb flsh drive)
    • WWW server
    • Quagga based router
    • anything you can do under linux