FirmWare Modification – Firmware ModKit

Most of the time you don't really need to re-build DD-WRT to make your desired changes. Now, this process has been made easy with the Firmware Modification Kit. This kit gives the user the ability to make changes to a firmware image without recompiling the firmware sources. It works by extracting the firmware into its component parts, then extracting the squashfs-lzma based file system (other file systems can be supported with tweaks). The user can then make modifications to the extracted file system, then rebuild the firmware image.

From DD-WRT website

Most of the time you don't really need to re-build DD-WRT to make your desired changes. Now, this process has been made easy with the Firmware Modification Kit. This kit gives the user the ability to make changes to a firmware image without recompiling the firmware sources. It works by extracting the firmware into its component parts, then extracting the squashfs-lzma based file system (other file systems can be supported with tweaks). The user can then make modifications to the extracted file system, then rebuild the firmware image.

Research Links

 

BackGround Links

  • Google: file system image  – In computing, a system image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non-volatile form such as a file. A system is said to be capable of using system images if it can be shut down and later restored to exactly the same state. In such cases, system images can be used for backup.
  • Wikipedia: SquashFS –  Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system for Linux. Squashfs compresses files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes up to 1 MB for greater compression. Several compression algorithms are supported. Squashfs is also the name of free software, licensed under the GPL, for accessing Squashfs filesystems. Squashfs is intended for general read-only file-system use and in constrained block-device memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed.
  • /dev/ttyS0 – Reverse Engineering Serial Ports

Google Android Play Store Services Direct DownLoad Fix

Description of precedure to install apps when Google Play Services refuses to update. Example of this is when you click install and get "Download Pending"

Process Steps

  1. find the app in the google play store
  2. Go to: APK Download Link Generator  and generate a link to download
  3. Put the link on a webpage so you can then download on phone – You can bypass this by doing DL on your phone. I am doing it here using this page as intermediary.
  4. Navigate to this page and click on the apk link you want to install
  5. After downloading click on the download and you will be prompted to install

pol – Nothing is Beyond Our Reach – Left Caint Meme

The Maxwell's Demons of 4Chan channeled the launch of NROL-39 by casting Pepe as the all grasping octopus of the launch patch art that states "Nothing is beyond our Reach".  This is likely an allusion to how they found Shia LeBeef every time he moved his Trump performance art.  

     

   4Chan: /pol/ – Politically Incorrect                Wikipedia: USA – 247                                          

PendriveApps.com – Website with much USB based software

The PendriveApps.com  website has much USB related and based software.  It is a good place to go looking to see if there is a software tool for what you want to do.  However I would go to the source of the software rather than downloading from this site.

I originally found this site because of wanting to evaluate USB drives with H2testw.  This is a relatively popular site and the focus is a formula that seems to be sucessful.