[INCOMPATIBLE] Support for Power Station SHG3000

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bal23
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:17    Post subject: [INCOMPATIBLE] Support for Power Station SHG3000 Reply with quote
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?

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SoC Broadcom BCM63136SVKFSBG
WiFi Broadcom BCM43602KMLG
Flash MXIC MX30LF2G18AC-TI (256 Mb)


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 17:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome to our lively community. Cool

Read https://dd-wrt.com/donations/ and https://dd-wrt.com/router-detection/

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.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 17:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
Combination *DSL Modem/Router. Will never see support from DD-WRT.

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it has an integrated modem (dd-wrt is router firmware and does not support the modem part)
it has VOIP ports (RJ-11)


Vodafone Power Station / Vox30 - OpenWRT Wiki

SUPPORTO > ASSISTENZA DISPOSITIVI > VODAFONE STATION > VODAFONE POWER STATION

Is it worth adapting openwrt to Vodafone Power Station SHG3000 <eyeroll>

Vodafone Power Station, modem Vodafone di quarta generazione per Fibra e ADSL

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 10:09    Post subject: Reply with quote
the-joker wrote:
Welcome to our lively community. Cool

Read https://dd-wrt.com/donations/ and https://dd-wrt.com/router-detection/

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.


Thanks for the answer!

Here is the list of chips I identified on PCB:

SoC Broadcom BCM63136SVKFSBG
WiFi Broadcom BCM43602KMLG
Flash MXIC MX30LF2G18AC-TI (256 Mb)

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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 10:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are the photos of the chips


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 12:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
It was already said that it is a combination device, which will never see support. BCM63xx SoC even further confirms it will never see support.
bal23 wrote:

Thanks for the answer!

Here is the list of chips I identified on PCB:

SoC Broadcom BCM63136SVKFSBG
WiFi Broadcom BCM43602KMLG
Flash MXIC MX30LF2G18AC-TI (256 Mb)

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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Quote:
it is based on a Broadcom 63xx chipset

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 15:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
dale_gribble39 wrote:
It was already said that it is a combination device, which will never see support. BCM63xx SoC even further confirms it will never see support.


What is so wrong with the SoC that have DSL module that most of them don't have support?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 19:52    Post subject: Reply with quote
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.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:21    Post subject: Reply with quote
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
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