cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16959253

I got this AP for free, and had some fun trying to configure it, and I decided to look at the inside of this thing. It has a PowerPC processor, pretty cool!

It is a Cisco Aironet 1131AG

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It’s an old AP from around 2007, I managed to get the latest firmware thanks to some guy on the Internet Archive (thank god they exists) ! ( https://archive.org/download/cIOS-firmware-images/ )

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Why something that old? WiFi standards move on and so does security.

    However, if it isn’t Broadcom you probably can get OpenWRT running

    • Krafting@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Why not, old hardware can ne really cool you know! It’s not for running 24/7 of course, just to sée what once was a cool and expensive product

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Not for WiFi. You can get a cheap WiFi 5 device that will work way better. Just flash Openwrt to a supported device and you are golden.

  • debounced@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    hard to say for sure, but U109 and U208 could be UART into those Cisco baseband or radio chips. one placement for the 2.4 GHz (G) and 5 GHz (A), respectively. would be interesting to probe around there and see if you get a serial interface to it… obviously for extra credit ;-)