Hi Martin, thanks for diggin' in the proprietary dirt and extracting all the legally possible info for each firmware file. I also got some VRX200 boards flying around here, most of them in productive use on VDSL2 lines. However, I might give your updated driver a try once I'm awake during less critical daytimes.
On lantiq-xdsl-firmware-info: What about having BITH hashes or even magnet:-links next to the file names? That would surely increase the sustainability of your work ;) On updating the driver: >From what I understood we already got two seperate versions of the driver, one for Danube/ADSL and one for xRX/VDSL...? On ISP settings: Most ISPs use the ITU recommended enumeration of VLANs on PTM/VDSL. However, some don't, thus having some reference on that would definitely make things easier for new users. We should list VLANs, PPP settings and status of IPv6 support (native DS, DS-Lite, 6rd, ... as well as the length of the prefix the ISP delegates to the users router). Quite often this is not consistent and we might need a couple of entries for some ISPs offering quite different services depending on the region and the date of the initial subscription. About your questions: Yes, VDSL(2) only makes sense with PTM. No, nothing useful on the wiki for now afaik. Yes, happy to fill the missing info where ever I can. Once again, thank you for doing this! Cheers Daniel On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:00:57AM +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: > Hello, > > I recently purchased a TP-Link TD-W8970 on which I have installed OpenWrt. > My goal is to use it as my main "DSL router", so it has to connect to > the internet. > For the reference: at the moment I'm using a "AVM FritzBox" for this > purpose, which is connected directly to the phone jack (the web > interface tells me it's using "B43", which should be Annex B). > > Unfortunately the situation regarding the drivers and the > (corresponding) firmware files is not as good as it could be. > > There is no list of firmware files (I understand that those cannot be > distributed) which could serve as a reference. > Thus I decided to read the driver's source code and build a list of > firmware files that I have stumbled across: [0] > Feel free to send me the details how to get more versions into this > list (please be aware that I need a link to a public hosted file that > *everyone* can download). > Reading all this information from binary files is not what I wanted, > so I wrote a small script that does the job: [1] > > While I was at it I researched if there was a newer driver version > that the one we currently have in OpenWrt (v4.11.4). > There was an update to v4.11.11 like 9 months ago, which was reverted > because it was not working for everyone. > Since I was not sure if the old driver could handle newer DSL > firmwares I searched if I could find anything newer than v4.11.11 - > and I found v4.15.2 in BT Home Hub 5A's sources (unfortunately with > all build files stripped off). > I published the updated drivers (with build files hacked back in) / > userspace utility on github: [2], [3], [4], [5] > > Noteworthy changes: > - Danube support was stripped (ARX100 is now the first supported platform) > - Vectoring support (might still require other kernel patches) > > The patch to get the new drivers into OpenWrt can be found here: [6] > (Please note that you need to create the tarballs yourself and put > them in the dl/ directory). > This updated driver works "as good" as the old one: I get to status > 0x300 (HANDSHAKE) but not further (but that is probably "my own > problem"). > > In the end I also have a question: > Is there any list of recommended DSL settings per ISP? > For example it seems that for VDSL you have to use PTM, with the > correct Annex B firmware, etc. - but can that information be found on > the wiki? > If not then I'll look into creating a page in the next few days (which > YOU, valued reader, need to fill with info :-)). > > Please let me know if anyone is experimenting with my updated DSL driver. > Also I'd like to hear if the firmware page is helpful and/or if you > have firmware versions that work for you (which should obviously > listed there as well). > > > Regards, > Martin > > > > [0] https://xdarklight.github.io/lantiq-xdsl-firmware-info/ > [1] https://github.com/xdarklight/lantiq-xdsl-firmware-info > [2] https://github.com/xdarklight/drv_mei_cpe > [3] https://github.com/xdarklight/drv_dsl_cpe_api_vrx > [4] https://github.com/xdarklight/lib_ifxos > [5] https://github.com/xdarklight/dsl_cpe_control_vrx > [6] https://gist.github.com/xdarklight/58fe9807594d5366e068/download > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
