Indeed. After much research I replaced my venerable wrt-54g with a tp-link, wrt-3600 or something like that, anyway due to the ath9k WiFi chip it's supported by

Indeed. After much research I replaced my venerable wrt-54g with a tp-link, wrt-3600 or something like that, anyway due to the ath9k WiFi chip it's supported by Linux without any binary blobs. And of course I promptly replaced the stock firmware with openwrt. Sad if this is going away..