WhyNot a Blog

In this post, I’ll walk through how I got into the Linux Kernel Mentorship Program (LKMP for short). What the mentorship actually looked like week to week, my first patch (and the bug that came with it), how I found my way into the AD5504 work, and what I picked up from the community along the way.

In My Last Post, we covered the essentials: flashing OpenWrt, setting up serial access, and using a USB drive to give the TL-MR3020 some actual storage breathing room . We successfully turned a travel router into a functional, headless Linux server.

The WNH Initiative, short for “Why Not Hardware,” is driven by the curiosity of its members, their desire to understand the world around them, and their passion for making it a better place by repurposing old hardware into something new. In doing so, it naturally addresses the ongoing e-waste crisis and inspires others to see value in devices that would otherwise be discarded.