Motorola WR850G owners; read this!

[JaYp146]

Obviously, the online support community for the Linksys WRT54G (and GL) has been phenomenal, enabling many users to "hack" their routers into a lean, mean, security machine.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1934624,00.asp
^one of many articles on how to hack it / benefits of doing so.

However, after browsing Wikipedia's article on the Linux firmware hacking, I came across this:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Your_Motorola_WR850G

As you can see, apparently the WR850G is almost identical to the WRT54G and is just as hackable. Haven't personally tried this on my version v2 model yet, but will probably get to it sometime this weekend.

Other routers "flashable" by DD-WRT can be found here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DD-WRT_Docu_(EN)

Just my $0.02 (and my first N&S post!)

l8r m8s

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah DD supports quite a few different make/model products.

Many of them..since they're based off the same chipsets..you can even flash with other brands firmware. For example..I've seen Linksys wrt54g firmware on Belkin G routers.

I always wondered why people call this "hacking" routers. It's just 3rd party firmware..open source. It's not unlike purchasing a PC with Windows XP on it..then formatting your drive and installing Ubuntu or some other *nix distro...people don't call that "hacking your PC".