Snort on Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router Help

[Tux]

Wow, apparently I haven't been keeping up on the latest WRT happenings. How did I miss this little gem?!? I have 3 WRT54G and 1 WRT54GS boxes but a USB port would open up so many more possibilities! Has anyone booted Debian on one of these devices? I use OpenWRT on all my current WRTs. I wonder if it's possible to boot the device directly from USB or do you have to have your kernel and boot image on the internal flash? A thumbdrive with Debian installed would make a pretty cool little firewall box.

Yes it's possible to install the OS to the usb storage and people have. I havnt heard of anyone getting Debian on a WRT yet.
One of the great things is you can have a swap partition with reasonable perfomance.
Essentially having USB is like the SD card mod on steroids!

Why wouldn't they offer these things where you live?

Apparently they were on the Linksys UK list for a while but then mysteriously withdrawn. They're now just in the states.
I wonder if they are just gonna skip to the newer WRT350N (which will be the most insane OpenWRT ever, watch this space)
I could a WRTSL54GS from ebay for $145 (inc. shipping) which isn't so bad with the current strength of the pound. I can just see myself getting stung by customs though
It's a great model when you consider that a WRT54GS would need the extra cost and soldering time of the SD mod to be anywhere near comparible.

[Tux]

Onto technical things:

I'm not sure it will ever work well on a WRT's memory footprint, but here goes.

I got mysql to successfuly configure on my emulated MIPS. I'm wondering where to go from here:

A) Compile it on the same machine. This could take a long time, emulation is slow.

-or-

B) Transfer the Makefile to my native environment and hack it to work with the mips cross-compiler.

[Void Main]

Compiling under the emulator would probably be the easiest but using the the cross compiler would be the fastest. I might have to check that QEMU out. I've never used it.