WRT54GL, meet Alice

posted Feb 27th 2010 9:26am by Jakob Griffith
filed under: misc hacks

When it comes to routers, there is one that is hacker’s favorite, the WRT54GL. But a slightly lesser known company, Pirelli with their “Alice Gate2 plus Wi-Fi”, seems to be a popular choice among our Italian friends.

[Esteban] has done everything from installing serial and parallel ports, to unlocking firmware while installing Debian. Our personal favorite is the creative wiring of an additional USB port, where he had to custom create a power circuit to run his webcam and external drive.

[Thanks Marco]

[Update: It would appear Roleo, Beghiaro, and Zibri did the actual grunt work at ilpuntotecnicoeadsl and Esteban simply wrote the guides. Thanks for your hard work and hacking skills guys!]

Comments [22]

tagged: alice, debian, gate2 plus wifi, parallel, serial, unlock firmware, usb, webcame, wrt54gl

Reader Comments

who doesn’t like usb?

also, 1st

Posted at 9:53 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by googfan

It would be nice to have some more information, pictures, or videos of this :/

Posted at 9:56 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by sm10

We do have these routers here in Greece too, but the brand name is Pirelli, not perelli! ;)

Posted at 9:56 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by Rizla++

looks like he’s not talking about installing a parallel port, but just a hookup for a parallel port jtag cable

Posted at 10:08 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by tantris

That’s plain wrong!

This guy “esteban” didn’t do anything. He just wrote a GUIDE about thing accomplished by ROLEO, BEGHIARO and ME on an italian forum http://www.ilpuntotecnicoeadsl.com

Please give CREDITS to the right people.
I know you dont’ understand italian language.
But this post is totally wrong.

Posted at 10:36 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by Zibri

@ Zibri

Seconded! Check your sources! Journalism 101.

Posted at 10:49 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by frollard

Uh this is a BLOG…people don’t expect the sources to be checked thoroughly…want proof look at our president the majority of the country drank that kool aid and had they “checked the sources” of the “journalists” that mixed it they would have known the truth

Posted at 11:01 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by Hacksaw

sure zibri always know how to be a nice guy

Posted at 11:43 am on Feb 27th, 2010 by pod

Huh.., does Pirelli make routers?

Posted at 12:42 pm on Feb 27th, 2010 by Michiel

The new fry’s routers look like they may have possibilities. There are other routers besides the linksys units that have been hardware and software hacked. My italian is a bit rusty and google does not do that good of job in translating the italian sites mentioned, though I muddled through them.

Posted at 2:34 pm on Feb 27th, 2010 by davi jordan

@Hacksaw
your low-effort political trolling is getting tiresome

Posted at 1:03 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by octel

SOB the comment section of Hackaday reached a new low; political commentary. Commentary not even closely related to our pastime here.

Posted at 1:52 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by D-

When did Pirelli start making tyres for the Information Highway?

Posted at 5:02 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by Rat

@Rat

Z-Rated, baby.

Posted at 9:10 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by strider_mt2k

Or anything besides hair tonics and shaves?

Posted at 10:06 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by c4r4b4s

@Michiel: yeah, I thought they were only making cool calendars.

Posted at 10:35 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by Olivier

I wish the WRT series had a power switch like I see on that router, I’ve been modding mine with power switches as I get them. It just makes sense.

Posted at 11:44 am on Feb 28th, 2010 by deathventure

I personally prefer a v2 WRT54GS over any WRT54GL.

Posted at 2:25 pm on Feb 28th, 2010 by TRB

Sorry for my English ..

I reported my experience on my tutorial of a hack of roleo, with some of my personal changes, and more.
In my tutorial there are the thanks to puntotecnicoadsl.com and Roleo!

Where is the problem???

Posted at 2:37 pm on Feb 28th, 2010 by Esteban Sannin

LOL.., calendars and great tires.
Got myself some P Zero Nero’s… :)

Ok.., and on topic again… :D

Posted at 4:08 pm on Feb 28th, 2010 by Michiel

[Update]
I want to clarify some details about this hack.
1. Beghiero and Zibri didn’t participate to this project.
2. Roleo and me worked together to the second usb realization project.
3. the “webcam on router” idea is only mine:
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9987/agacam.jpg

However I don’t want to be simply “mentioned” as the author of this tutorial/guide, because I made effectively those hacks!!

Enjoy…

Posted at 8:36 am on Mar 2nd, 2010 by Esteban Sannin (THE AUTHOR)

I think hacking is FREEDOM at any level for any category of it.
Esteban improved the hack started by roleo and ‘the others’ and then he added more features like the awesome webcam with a really good work and all of the “hacking style”…so be happy not angry for this ;D
We are all a big family!

Happy Hacking 2 all.

CiauZ

Posted at 4:17 pm on Mar 3rd, 2010 by KnightRider