Category Archives: Hardware

Delorme PN-60w & Topo 9.0 on OSX Lion with VirtualBox

Posted by on December 14, 2011 No comments

This week I switched the VM software I use from Parallels to VirtualBox. There are many reasons for this, but the primary one is that VirtualBox is free and I can put it on all the machines I want. Another reason is that I can share virtual disks etc with my Linux workstation that already has VirtualBox installed. I’ve been very happy with it on Linux, so I decided to try it out on my Mac and the results were great.

Since my primary computer is a Mac and I enjoy using my Delorme PN-60w to it’s fullest, I chose to run Topo North America 9.0 in a Windows virtual machine so management of maps etc is super easy. I had set this up without any issues using an XP virtual with Paralells, but VirtualBox and Windows 7 presented some obstacles. I’ll explain how to get it all working in a few easy steps.

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Installing DD-WRT on Netgear WNDR3400 v1 N600

Posted by on November 27, 2011 60 comments

UPDATE 05/17/2012: There are some reports of newer builds totally bricking this router. Build 17990 is the last one confirmed to work with this router and is referenced in this post.

UPDATE 01/09/2012: This post has been updated to include links to DD-WRt SVN version 17990 and includes instructions for loading DD-WRT “mega” onto the router.

Recently I got the urge to get IPv6 going on my local LAN (will be covered in another post). First thing I checked was if my router had any native support for it. Unfortunately, it did not. This led me to checking out DD-WRT. It’s something I’ve used for years with various other routers and it opens up all kinds of cool features and options not usually available with the factory firmware.
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