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/ )

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    17•3 days ago

    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.

    • KraftingOPEnglish
      8•3 days ago

      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…