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[Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?



I guess I've been lucky. Now that I think of it, every embedded device I've
ever purchased was probably discussed or demoed at a BLU meeting or other
Linux-related event before I bought it.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com>
wrote:

> > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> > bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau
> >
> > It has no option to ssh into a command line? That seems odd; pretty much
> > every embedded device I've ever owned was based on Linux and had an
> > option
> > to enable ssh.
>
> Wow.  John, your experience is extremely atypical.  I have hacked (and
> failed to hack) many, many linux based commodity devices.  Believe me, in
> most devices there is no ssh daemon.  In many devices, even when you manage
> to hack an ssh daemon or something into the device, there aren't even any
> shell commands available, such as ls and cat and stuff.
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