Turtlehead

Hey all.. A quick update for you..
I’ve just spent 40 minutes or so clearing up the spam comments. Hope the site’s a little more navigable for you now..
I’ve also fixed the source code snapshot and the nightly build. The machine that deals with the nightly build and packaging ran low on disk space because of all the spam that it receives. Once again, that should be fixed too..
As for the WMA11b. I’m not really working on it any more as I now prefer the Airport Express.. But I’m going to keep everything here and will keep approving comments.
As for Linksys moving the GPL code, they’ve moved it to their FTP server, but I’ve also mirrored it here just incase they remove it entirely..

Aparently mDNSResponder 58.8 is no longer available from the apple site preventing wmamp from building.
Fortunately I found a copy I had archived

mDNSResponder-58.8.tar.gz

Linksys have finally released the GPL code for the wma11b. At first glance they’ve done a nice job packaging it up. They’ve even provided the object files to the closed source portions of the code so we should be able to build a near duplicate of the existing flash. Which is nice of them..

http://www.linksys.com/support/opensourcecode/wma11b/1106/wma11B_GPL.zip

Many thanks to Rich for letting me know about this release. I’d given up checking the Linksys GPL page.

I always thought it was unsociable to have the TV on whist listening to music so here’s the latest hack.
It’s very early at the moment and only prints a little info out and no control is yet possible. That will change when I get to it.

Thanks to Al for the idea..

The LCD is from PJRC.

Andy Wild just mailed to say he has written a bootloader for the wma so it can be booted from any other OS.
Check it out here…
This could be wma11b independence day… ;-p

Download a tool to extract and split the wma rom..
A map of the ROM so far appears to be this..

00000 Bootloader

0E000 non-volatile parameters, ssid, wep key, etc…

10000 Kernel uncompressor

12990 Kernel (gzip image)

9C000 filesystem (gzip image)

Download  readwma11brom.tar.gz…
Upload readflash to your wma11b and run from /tmp it will create a dump of the devices 2meg ROM. Transfer the wma11b.rom file to your pc / linux box and run splitrom (after you’ve compiled it) and it will chuck out all the bits of the rom I’ve discovered so far.
I’m not brave enough to reflash it yet.
Now in theory we should be able to hack the gzip area after 9C000 to contain a new filesystem so we can ditch the squishguave image totally and all the pc based software.
You can mount the filesystem image after uncompressing it with this command…

$ mount ./ramdisc -o loop /mnt/wma/

Let me know if you discover anymore…
Oh, and if you really really want to play about writing to the flash, email me and I’ll let you know the ioctl commands to erase and unlock the write protect on it. Just let me know you wont blame me if you can never use it again… ;-p

The latest source code is now available Here.

This is a direct dump from my source repository, done at 6 every morning.

I’ll happily take bug fixes and enhancements in the form of diffs or patches.

I will say though that building this will probably be non-trivial because of the prerequisits and because you’ll have to cross compile it. If you’re just after something to listen to your music with, I’d strongly suggest download the prebuilt image.

Many thanks to Ben Frost for taking the time to do us a really cool logo. I’ve already put it in the latest version, although that’s not been released yet, it addresses most of the bugs / glitches reported so far.

It already looks much nicer.

Must apologies for my camera work here. Should write a screen capture function really.

I’ve dropped the background effect because it was too slow, and have centred the screen a little better. There’s also a much easier to read font. There’s been other various fixes too, and more to follow during this week.. Look for the next version at the weekend or soon after.

Here’s the first release of wmamp for the Linksys wma11b.
Full details in the included README.TXT

Have fun with it and please remember it’s a prerelease, no more than a technology demonstration, but it is usable.

Please report any glitches and bugs that I don’t discuss in the readme in the comments below.

http://www.turtlehead.co.uk/downloads/Wmamp-0.3.zip

Have Fun!!

Wahoo.. Guess what? I’m listening to AC/DC as streamed from iTunes via the Linksys WMA11B.

If I get the oppotunity I’ll make the first release either today, but most likely tomorrow. When ever it is, it’s going to be a very early prerelease as there’s still many many bugs present. From the serious to the minor.

If you’re interested helping with the coding or you appriciate the project please let me know. I could do with the support.

I could also do with some help with icons and some graphics as I’m pitiful at drawing. And to think I used to do graphics engines for the playstation many years ago. Thankfully I had access to artists then.