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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 archangel85j · · Score: 3, Informative

    They probably mean to incorporate SPI, WPA, TKP, AES, VPN, Mac filtering, and or content filtering. You know features that you typically don't see until you are over the $150 range.

  2. Re:"AirLink" products by LDoggg_ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fine, here's just a few:
    Bridged mode for point to point. Think about extending two buildings as though an ethernet cable was simply connecting the two physical networks
    Plain access point, not router
    Promicuous mode for war driving
    Mount to lan share to dump data for WEP cracking
    etc. etc.

    I'm a software engineer not a network engineer but its easy enough to see the possibilities.

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