[Nitecon]

This Unit has only 1 LAN Port with ABGN wireless.

Contains a Ralink RT3052F Winbond & MX chips as seen in photos.

Product Link: http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=140_TEW-638APB&cat=78


FCCID:S9ZTEW638APB

Would love to use this guy for a wireless bridge, that is it's current purpose and it's working kind of well but not dd-wrt well. I have 3 of these so if I brick one of them it's not too much of a big deal.

[Nitecon]

Anyone able to tell me anything about the winbond / mx chips?

If I can find something compatible i'll flash it to see what it does.

[Nitecon]

Ok here is some detail on the ICs on the board.

Winbond: 4MB X 4 Banks X 16 Bits SD RAM = 32MB
http://www.winbond.com.tw/NR/rdonlyres/04CCE85E-22A7-4B37-A0A8-5AB32D54E184/0/W9825G6EH.pdf

MX: MACRONIX

MX29LV Series 3 V 32 Mb (4M X 8/2M x 16) 70 ns Parallel Flash - TSOP-48 = 4MB

And then the RALINK Network Chip

Anyone willing to create a test build for this?

[Nitecon]

Forgot to mention that this unit contains 2 antenna's, that are externally removable. For my repeaters they are currently connected LMR400 cable with parabolic antennas to transfer signal from one house to the other, although I do get issues every so often with the firmware freezing up etc.

The trendnet firmware is currently available for download for this unit from trendnet's site.

[Nitecon]

Ok just pulled the full view as well from FCC since I didn't take a picture of it on my phone

[Nitecon]

I know I have been babbling a lot tonight, it just dawned on me that this unit has 256m ram... (4-Meg X 16-Bit X 4 banks) = 256M and a 32M flash... thats huge considering I paid 30 bucks for this access point from newegg during their sale, which i've seen quite a few times already. Or am I just so tired that my math completely sucks.

[LOM]

You have listed megabit memory sizes, divide by 8 to get it in MegaBytes

[Nitecon]

I always find it amusing to read back over my sleepless rabble and see stuff like that... I tried this morning to flash it with the g300n firmware but to no avail. It checks for a unique name to be specified.

[Nitecon]

Here is the direct download for the GPL source code for this guy:

http://downloads.trendnet.com/gpl/gpl_tew-638apb(v2-1.2.5).zip

It looks like there is a 4pin block directly next to the Ralink IC that may be usable for jtag... Although I had a massive surge last night so I can't really solder in anything in to this device right now until I get a few more of them, that is if this item may get supported...

[Sash]

after
http://dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-detection
this is useful
http://dd-wrt.com/site/community/donations

[Nitecon]

Would it be easier to buy the router from amazon.de and ship it directly somewhere?

[Sash]

do it.

[Nitecon]

PM me with a location on where it should be sent. I'm out of the country right now but will send it over soon as I'm back.

Scheduled to be back around the 5th of November.

[matt0023]

Hi--

was wondering if anyone had made progress with dd-wrt for this Trendnet model. I see someone on the Newegg product page claims to have installed dd-wrt with no problem. However, he provided no details...really wondering what build he supposedly used (?)

Thanks!
-Matt

[Nitecon]

I was scheduled to be back home around November, but I'm still away from home, so I have thus far not had the time etc to send over a router over there. I'm hoping that by Mid March I'll be able to do this.