Thin client router part 2: virtual insanity

 

So in part 1, I set-up the hardware and the base OS install. Now I'd like to try out OpenWRT with the Dell Wyse 3040 thin client and the Comfast CF-953AX USB3 WiFi6 1800Mbps adapter. Unfortunately the thin client has an Atom x5-Z8350 CPU, which none of the official OpenWRT binaries will run on it directly (more on that in part 3, I guess). Nevertheless, I'd still like to test-out the WiFi adapter with OpenWRT, so I'll do the next best thing: run it in a virtual machine.

Misusing the Dell Wyse 3040 thin client

The Dell Wyse 3040 thin client

So there have been a lot of people messing with these dinky little computers and I'm certainly not the first or the most ground breaking. However I have found that a lot of the info I am after is spread quite widely and is often not the most clear or informative. So this will hopefully be the first in a series of posts about how to mess with these boxes reliably.

Okonomiyaki

 

I've been holding off plagiarising this recipe from Eat Your Kimchi because I wanted to support the creators. Unfortunately it looks like their blog site's gone off the air some time since I last looked at it, so it's "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!"

Basically okonomiyaki is a Japanese cabbage fritter. The EYK video covers the Osaka-style in that it has pork-belly strips on the A-side. I might as well add some of my own "as you like it" changes along the way to make it look like I didn't just copy the recipe outright.