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Teh WRT54G series launched in 2002 featuring a Broadcom BCM47xx 32-bit processor with 16MB RAM and a 4MB flash memory. The device functions as a router with wired 10/100 Mbps ethernet along with wireless 802.11bg. These devices continue to be a workhorse in WiFi everywhere and spawned several open source firmware projects. OpenWrt and dd-wrt both have their roots here. Almost as a trojan horse, they also brought about IoT in that the Broadcom chipset has since become the basis of the Raspberry Pi.
OpenWrt[edit]
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g
To "upgrade" from the command line with telnet, ssh or console access on a device already running busybox.
cd /tmp/ wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/openwrt-brcm47xx-squashfs.trx mtd write /tmp/openwrt-brcm47xx-squashfs.trx
To "recover" with default settings, boot into failsafe mode and run firstboot
then restart.