How to hack the Wireless Fantastic

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Underneath the hood of the WRT54G is a 200MHz MIPS processor running Linux and anywhere from 16 to 32MB of RAM and 4 or 8MB of Flash RAM. Linksys, bless their Cisco-owned hearts, has quietly published the source code for its Linux-based devices for anyone to download and modify to their heart’s content. There was a bit of a stink about Linksys violating the Linux GPL, but it seems to have been cleared up. As a result, there’s a nice little percolating international open source community constantly improving the WRT54G’s firmware, with a lot of discussion going on at this web site.”

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