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Not only was the WRT54G cheap, it was hackable. Coming around relatively early in the mainstream history of the wireless router, it showed a flexibility far beyond what its creator intended for the device. While not the only game in town, it was overwhelmingly prevalent in homes around the world. Although much less heralded, its success was comparable to the then-contemporary Motorola RAZR for a time, in that it was basically everywhere, on shelves in homes and small businesses around the world.
The WRT54G, despite the scary name, was the wireless router people who needed a wireless router would buy. And odds are, it may still be in use in a lot of places, even though its security standards are well past its prime and it looks extremely dated on a mantle. But the reason the WRT54G series has held on for so long, despite using a wireless protocol that was effectively made obsolete 12 years ago, might come down to a feature that was initially undocumented—a feature that got through amid all the complications of a big merger.
This was a problem, because it meant that Linksys would be compelled to release the source code of its wireless firmware under the GNU General Public License, which requires the distribution of the derivative software under the same terms as the software that inspired it.
Miklas noted that his interest in the flashed file was driven in part by a desire to see better Linux support for the still-relatively-new This was an oversight on the part of Cisco, which got an unhappy surprise about a popular product sold by its recent acquisition just months after its release.
Essentially, what happened was that one of their suppliers apparently got a hold of Linux-based firmware, used it in the chips supplied to the company by Broadcom, and failed to inform Linksys, which then sold the software off to Cisco. In a column for Linux Insider , Heather J. Meeker, a lawyer focused on issues of intellectual property and open-source software, wrote that this would have been a tall order for Cisco to figure out on its own:. The first takeaway from this case is the difficulty of doing enough diligence on software development in an age of vertical disintegration.
Cisco knew nothing about the problem, despite presumably having done intellectual property diligence on Linksys before it bought the company. But to confound matters, Linksys probably knew nothing of the problem either, because Linksys has been buying the culprit chipsets from Broadcom, and Broadcom also presumably did not know, because it in turn outsourced the development of the firmware for the chipset to an overseas developer.
To discover the problem, Cisco would have had to do diligence through three levels of product integration, which anyone in the mergers and acquisitions trade can tell you is just about impossible. This was not sloppiness or carelessness—it was opaqueness.
He added that, despite offering to help Cisco, they were not getting back to him. A WRT54G removed from its case. The device, thanks to its Linux firmware, became the target of both software and hardware hacks. To hackers, this opened up a world of opportunity, and third-party developers quickly added capabilities to the original hardware that was never intended.
It also proved the root for some useful open-source firmware in the form of OpenWrt and Tomato , among others, which meant that there was a whole infrastructure to help extend your router beyond what the manufacturer wanted you to do.
Cisco was essentially compelled by the threat of legal action to release the Linux-based firmware under the GPL, but it was not thrilled to see that the device whose success finally gave it the foothold in the home that had long evaded the company being used in ways beyond what the box said. This angered end users, and Cisco apparently realizing it had screwed up eventually released a Linux version of the router, the WRT54GL, which restored the specifications removed.
Today, the company sells an entire line of black-and-blue routers that maintain support for open-source firmware. They cost way more than the WRT54G ever did, though. Yes, hacking this device became so common that there is an entire page book dedicated to the concept.
Now, to be clear, most people who bought a variant of the WRT54G at Best Buy likely did not care that the firmware was open source. But the decision created a cult of sorts around the device by making it hackable and able to do more things than the box on its own might have suggested. On the other hand, for someone who lives alone, has a laptop and a smartphone and maybe a tablet, and has the least expensive Internet connection the local provider offers, a WRT54G may be able to handle duty as a primary router.
One place where some would say a WRT54G is still useful is as an access point. There will be other more minor vulnerabilities as well. I get taken to task for saying that. You can run a generic Broadcom build if it fits in the flash memory. That means a micro or a mini build. Then navigate to Broadcom, and pick a micro generic build or the plain mini build.
You can also use one as a switch , after disabling the wireless functionality and the DHCP server. So why do people still buy them?
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