Welcome to Hacking the Whistle InterJet.

Our mission is to figure out cool things to do with the amazing and wonderfully well-designed Whistle InterJet. This includes installing modern versions of FreeBSD, recreating as much of the original hardware and software functionality as possible, and extending its usefulness. Note that we are NOT interested in using proprietary code, but rather in finding ways to use the hardware to the fullest extent with publicly available software and information. Hack value is also a high priority. :)

Basically, we haven't done anything more advanced than the things that can be done with an ordinary box --but we hope to get more geeky once we have a firm grip on the basic system. :)

PROJECT				STATUS
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Linux firewall			DONE - by Matt Schumacher
FreeBSD firewall		waiting for a volunteer
jukebox				In progress (royce) - recommend route66 (Barry Clark)
OpenBSD install			Good writeup by Nick Holland

Interested in a project not listed? Let us know!

Public software components - the original list, and useful add-ons for hacking.

Whistle Folks - the rockin' people who brought you the original InterJet.

Fun with Your Whistle!

Working with the original system software:

• Root Howto by Joe Hamelin, with additions by Julian Elischer
• A dmesg from non-released WhistleWare version 4.2p2 (Julian Elischer)
• A keypad reference, including resets and remote management

References and Resources

Mailing list: (pretty low traffic right now) Send an email to whistlejet-request@nethead.org with "subscribe" in the SUBJECT.