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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by dogma1138 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @06:00AM (#9960469)
If you open most SOHO routers today (mid-to high end ones) the baseband processor and the RF stuff will be on a daughter board, in many cases it will be the same or very similar mini-PCIE cards that you find in most laptops.
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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by vidarh on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:54AM (#9973807)
> the baseband processor and the RF stuff will be on a daughter board

Which doesn't help you all that much in replacing the firmware.

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