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I recently retired an old wireless router that seemed to be flaking out from time to time. Since it still worked, I thought I'd check to see if one of the linux based router distributions would work with my old wireless router, an Asus WL-500G.

My search led me to dd-wrt. Dd-wrt is a linux based router firmware that was originally founded way back in 2004 by Sebastian Gottschall. From what I can gather, Sebastian originally wrote the first version of dd-wrt as a modification of Linksys firmware for supporting Radius authentication. Somewhere along the way, Sebastian teamed up with a company called NewMedia-NET GmbH and development continued to expand the number of routers on which the dd-wrt firmware would work.

The latest version, 2.4.x is still available for free from dd-wrt's site. And development seems to be going strong.

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