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
More pics:
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/ )
9 Comments
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 2y
By the way, with some not so ancient devices you can search for the firmware here: https://software.cisco.com/download/home and at least get MD5 and SHA-512 hashes to verify the files you downloaded.
Not the case with this AP though.
Edit: Oh, I almost forgot. Also the exact filename. Makes it easy finding it online.
Krafting@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Of course and I tried to search it, didn't find the download on the Cisco website sadly, nor the md5sum for this specific file, I found some other sums tho.
Cisco has a tendancy to remove download or block them behing an account with a licence...
lnxtx@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 2y
If you surprised why it has a PowerPC CPU. It's actually a SoC.
From the manual:
Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com · 8 pts · 2y
Sweet! My first computer was a 333mhz PowerPC Mac! Still have that behemoth. Man, I learned video editing and 3d modelind on that thing and totally changed my career path.
Now 25 years later it's decendant (roughly?) is a SoC running a wireless hub!
debounced@kbin.run · 7 pts · 2y
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 ;-)
Krafting@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Ooo, that'd be fun, and scary, I never done such a thing, maybe I could look at this some day !
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
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.world · 3 pts · 2y
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
Lalit-Sharma101@gehirneimer.de · 0 pts · 1y
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 2y
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.