A-Link Ltd — 00:1A:9F (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning 00:1A:9F belongs to A-Link Ltd, a Finnish consumer-networking brand registered at Kylavainiontie 20, Espoo, Finland under the single IEEE MA-L block 00:1A:9F. Devices carrying this prefix are most plausibly legacy 802.11g-era Wi-Fi hardware — USB wireless adapters, wireless access points, and antennas — rather than enterprise or carrier equipment.

A-Link's identifiable product line includes the WL54USB and WL54USB-A USB wireless adapters (built on an Atheros AR5007UG chipset), the WL54AP2 and WL54AP3 wireless access points, and an A6IN 6dBi indoor antenna. The brand was distributed regionally through Avaks Finland Oy in Europe and Tradelink Corp in the US, consistent with a small OEM-rebrand consumer brand rather than a vertically integrated manufacturer.

One documented vulnerability is tied to this hardware: CVE-2008-6823, a set of CSRF flaws in the WL54AP2/WL54AP3 web management interface (firmware before 1.4.2-eng1) that let an attacker hijack admin sessions via the network-config and password-change forms. No other CVE or malware association is recorded as of an August 2026 search.

A-Link Ltd appears dormant as an active brand: no live corporate website or Finnish business-registry record was found, and its 802.11g-era product line is long past end-of-life. IEEE publishes no registration date for MAC OUI blocks, so no assignment date is given here; any third-party "first seen" date is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.

Device class

Legacy 802.11g consumer Wi-Fi hardware (USB adapters, access points, antenna)

Vendor

A-Link Ltd, Espoo, Finland — single IEEE MA-L block 00:1A:9F

Also seen on

WL54AP2 / WL54AP3 access points, named in CVE-2008-6823 (nvd.nist.gov)

Distribution

Avaks Finland Oy (Europe), Tradelink Corp (US) — tietokonekauppa.fi

Company status

Likely dormant/defunct; no live website found as of an August 2026 search

IEEE assignment

00:1A:9F (MA-L) → A-Link Ltd, Kylavainiontie 20, Espoo, FI-02760, Finland [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 001A9F

Registry / block size

single MA-L (24-bit) block; absent from MA-M and MA-S registries (direct grep, zero matches) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

HQ / country

Kylavainiontie 20, Espoo, FI-02760, Finland (registry address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 001A9F

Company status

Likely dormant; no live vendor website or Finnish business-registry record found [Unknown] — https://tietokonekauppa.fi/products/manufacturer/3228/A_LINK

Device types

USB wireless adapters, wireless access points, indoor antenna (802.11g) [Likely] — https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=1834775, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6823

Notable products

WL54USB, WL54USB-A, WL54AP2, WL54AP3, A6IN [Likely] — https://tietokonekauppa.fi/products/manufacturer/3228/A_LINK, https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=1834775

Security

CVE-2008-6823 — CSRF in WL54AP2/WL54AP3 web admin interface, firmware before 1.4.2-eng1, CVSSv2 6.8, published 2009-06-04 [Confirmed] — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6823

Registration date

not published by IEEE; a third-party "first seen" date of 2006-12-05 is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=00-1A-9F

Distribution

Avaks Finland Oy (Europe), Tradelink Corp (US) [Likely] — https://tietokonekauppa.fi/products/manufacturer/3228/A_LINK

Analyst note

00:1A:9F reliably identifies genuine A-Link hardware, but the product line is legacy 802.11g gear now past end-of-life — treat a device presenting this prefix as older consumer equipment, not an enterprise deployment.

[Likely] — https://tietokonekauppa.fi/products/manufacturer/3228/A_LINK, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6823