Linux on Linksys Wi-Fi Routers By James Ewing on Sun, 2004-08-01 01:00. Hardware Hacking this reliable, inexpensive platform can be your first step to a successful wireless project. Chain access points together to cover a wide area, crank up the power level, get more working space in Flash memory and more. Wireless networking has become a mass-market technology, and the price of 802.11 or Wi-Fi gear has fallen to commodity levels. Several thousand competitors with virtually identical products now are vying for your Wi-Fi dollars. In this kind of competitive space it is natural for manufacturers to seek the lowest cost alternatives. Their choice? Linux, of course.
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