Tuesday, February 26, 2008

GamecubeLinux using the exploit and USB Gecko

Here we go Linux on Wii is possible to run now with the current exploit:
Get it here:
Taken from the official site:
Long time, no see Although we haven't posted any news in the last 2 years, we have silently continued our work keeping the kernel patches up to date. With the latest 2.6.24

(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gc-linux/linux-2.6.24-gc.patch.gz)

release we have added support for the USB Gecko

(http://www.usbgecko.com/faq.htm)

adapter as a console and terminal, so you can now logon into your gc-linux distro using minicom or HyperTerminal (TM). And last but not least, we have finally run natively Linux on the Nintendo Wii through Team Tweezers' twilight-hack

(http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Twilight_Hack).

We have released a small usbgecko-enabled Proof of Concept

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gc-linux/wii-linux-PoC-0.1.tgz

mini-distro to prove it.