As much as I know, they contain MonteVista Linux. They where built by a subcontractor in Taiwan and when I asked ECI in Israel, they had no clue of what contractor and how can I get the sources. I know that MonteVista Israel also tried with no success so far.
-- Ori Idan On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Yedidyah Bar-David < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:16:04AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 11:47:57PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > > >> I'd use this thread to raise another issue (although it might have been > >> nicer to start a new thread). This ECI 312+ is rather old - it's not > >> sold (or given) anymore, as far as I know. But it runs Linux inside, and > >> theoretically can do whatever you want - but as far as I could find out, > >> ECI does not help you in any way - does not provide sources for their > >> firmware, etc. Perhaps if enough people are interested (or at least > >> determined ones), we can make them open up the device and have it as a > >> nice young brother to the WRT54G (with only 2MB flash/8MB RAM). Would > >> anyone be interested? > > > > I don't think they would be interested. As you said it's rather old and > > you can't get/they can't sell more of them. If they were to open them > > up, it would create a demand for them again, and they probably have no > > way of fulfilling the demand, supplying spare parts or support for them, > > etc. > > Actually, if you look around, you see that this modem/router is part of > a series of products, some of them a bit more featureful, and might be > still on the market (although I personally never saw one): > http://inoviatele.com/Products_Hi/HiBFOCuS.asp > I have no technical specs for any of them, but they *might* share much > of the hardware, enough to have a single core software system + > additions specific to each model. If that's the case, and they open up > one of them, you get the software for all of them. > > Also, one can try and have external organizations that do such things, > to help you politely ask them for it. After all, as far as I understand, > they must provide sources for at least all the GPL parts they used > (which include at least the kernel + busybox, it seems to me). > > > > > As a cheap router, there are lots of them sold new in the 250 NIS range > > if you shop around, can any of them be opened up? Do any of them have > > a direct aDSL connection, or are they all ethernet on the WAN side? > > I guess some of them have interesting features, I did not check. Some of > the models in the above mentioned page do. > -- > Didi > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ספרים וסיפורים שכתבתי: http://www.thestories.org
