Welcome to FreeWRT! This handbook covers the building, installation and usage aspects of the FreeWRT 2.0 Linux distribution. FreeWRT is a portable, secure and functional Linux distribution for embedded systems. As FreeWRT is a source code distribution, it does not provide any pre-compiled firmware for embedded systems. The latest version of this document is always available at the FreeWRT website. If you have any comments, criticism or found some wrong description, please send me an e-mail to wbx@freewrt.de, I am always happy about getting feedback to this document, and will try to update or correct the issues mentioned by you.
The FreeWRT User handbook is split into several distinct chapters. ch:ADK covers the building of FreeWRT firmware images. In ch:installing, ch:installing, all aspects regarding the installation and deinstallation of FreeWRT firmware images are covered. The next chapter, ch:administration, covers administrational tasks, such as network configuration, the FreeWRT configuration filesystem, package management and update mechanism. The last chapter, ch:troubleshooting, helps troubleshooting problems and recovering a bad firmware installation.
The intended audience for this handbook are advanced users with basic knowledge about Linux, networking and software development. The reader should be aware of basic command line tools, the vi editor and a shell. FreeWRT does not contain any high level administration tools (e.g. web based administration) and is fully configured via command line.