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I remember looking into this a couple months back because I wanted to SSH into my server from my DSi, just for the lolz.

I wasn't too invested in it, so when the wifi didn't "just work" I gave up, but I'd still love to get SSH working on that some day.

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Did DSLinux team ever manage to get it to work on the DSi?

I still have my DSi and it still works, but I remember DSLinux didn't work with it.

It should work fine in the DS backwards compatibility mode, but a native DSi port might be slightly nicer. The DSi has 16MB of system RAM.

Following that, the Old 3DS had 128MB and New 3DS had 256MB of RAM.

Yes, it works, but there are some issues.

The first one being that the SoC configuration runs in DS-compatibility mode which does not expose all of the available RAM in the DSi, and nds-bootstrap won't properly redirect I/O requests to the external SD card, which means you either need to embed the rootfs in the NDS ROM which won't persist changes, or use a flash cart and run the DLDI build instead.

Actually, someone made a working DSi mode WiFi driver some months ago. It is even used in a DSi compatible fork of ftpd. Very handy when transferring files on the SD card of a hacked DSi since it has WPA2 support unlike DS mode which is stuck with WEP.

https://github.com/devkitPro/dswifi/issues/4#issuecomment-89...

https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/dsiwifi

https://github.com/mtheall/ftpd/compare/master...shinyquagsi...

I believe most wifi routers have 802.11b support turned off by default these days. Otherwise, ssh should be doable!

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