Well after reading about al the fun hacking the Linksys Wireless Router WRT54G, I decided to give it a try. It turns out to be easy if you are a little persistent.
Linksys has been making these ubiquitous 802.11g routers on a Linux base under the GPL license and publishing the source code as required by GPL. This of course led to a community of people modifying the source or using other flavors of Linux to add features to the standard router.
HOWEVER, Linksys switched away from Linux for the latest version(v5) of the WRT54g making it nearly impossible to modify. Linksys also said they would sell the version 4 routers under the model WRT54GL. Of course it doesn’t look like that commitment is going to last very long. There is a wide spread rumor that Linksys was discontinuing the L model.
As you can imagine the race to find V4 routers is on! I found one at our local Office Dpot burried in the back of a large stack of V5 routers. I’ve spent some time this weekend upgrading and I will post my results on here shortly.
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