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Linux Hacked Onto Fry's Cheap Wireless G Router

Posted by timothy on from the cheap-and-cheerful dept.

nerdyH points to this smile-inducing story at LinuxDevices which begins "An inexpensive house-brand 802.11b/g wireless router from Fry's (Outpost.com) has been adopted by a group of Linux hackers that aims to make Fry's 'AirLink' devices 'as capable as name-brand gadgets.' The AirLink101 AR315W is based on a Marvell board that can run Linux or eCos, and has a six-port 10/100 Ethernet switch built in. It's listed for $45 online, but is reportedly on sale for $20 in some Fry's stores."

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  1. Re:"AirLink" products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hello,

    I'm writing to ask for your advice. I would like to upgrade my neighbor's Linksys WRT54G router with this HyperWRT firmware, but I'm not sure if it is possible to do so via a wireless connection. Do you know if this is possible? Are there any other "gotchas" I should look out for? Your advice would be most appreciated.

  2. Re:"AirLink" products by dal20402 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Mac filtering

    I *knew* we had a Microsoft troll here somewhere.

  3. Fry's seems to have a clue! by RFC959 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I just googled for Fry's (I figured it was probably frys.com, but I wanted to be sure), and what I saw in the search results made my jaw drop:

    We apologize to all of our Lynx users for our framed format.


    A major chain that's actually aware of Lynx?! And apologizes for using frames? This is one of the signs of the Apocalypse, isn't it? OK, so it was probably just the work of one dedicated geek in the IT department, but it's still impressive.