Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:17 Post subject: [INCOMPATIBLE] Support for Power Station SHG3000
Greetings!
Recently I bought Vodafone Power Station SHG3000 on a flohmarkt for 2 euros. I really liked its characteristics - powerful SoC, 0.5G of RAM... But native vodafone firmware makes it impossible to use the router for something except vodafone services. There is no even a bridge mode.
I considered porting openwrt on my device, but it appeared to be that opensource drivers for Broadcom BCM43602 will make it cripped. At the same time ddwrt firmware support chips of my device. So now I have a question - how ddwrt support is added to a new device like mine?
Broadcom in general are closed source drivers. Support maybe added provided there is a router the developer can use to add support and information as above in second link is provided.
There are lots of ddwrt firmware that support BCM43602 WiFi chip. I didn't find any supporting BCM63136 SoC, but OpenWrt supports it. So, is it possible to add support for that device?
There are lots of ddwrt firmware that support BCM43602 WiFi chip. I didn't find any supporting BCM63136 SoC, but OpenWrt supports it. So, is it possible to add support for that device?
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 19:52 Post subject:
In this case, while it seems that the BCM63xx SoC has files in upstream kernel trees as well as the kernel tree in use for Broadcom in DD-WRT, the DSL modem does not have any open source code available to 3rd party developers or in the upstream kernel tree. There has only been one (family?) of the combo devices ever supported by DD-WRT and BrainSlayer decided never to venture into that again. Vendors of these devices generally DO NOT provide any source code for public review / development because money and planned obsolescence. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:21 Post subject:
the problem with all these chipsets is that there is no opensource modem driver available. so technically i can port the cpu etc. but modem will not work _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s