culture.The wireless hardware hacker of today pursues his or her craft with a passion not seen since

the amateur radio (also known as ?ham radio? or ?hams?) operators of the last generation. Many

wireless enthusiasts are, in fact, connected with the ham community. Once solely the domain of a

small group of Radio Frequency (RF) engineers, wireless gear has never been so inexpensive and

accessible as it is today.With rapidly declining hardware costs, anybody can learn and experiment with

802.11 equipment with only a small investment.

In this chapter, we review several wireless hacks, tricks, and hardware modifications, including:

 D-Link DWL650 Card modification for adding an external antenna.

 OpenAP (Instant802) Reprogramming your Access Point (AP) to run an open-source

version of Linux.

 Dell 1184 Access Point Exploring the embedded Linux operating system.