Hi Jacek,

On Apr 25, 2014 1:59 AM, "Jacek Kikiewicz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am working on porting OpenWRT to D-link DHP-1565 (wiki for it:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dhp-1565).
> It's atheros platform, I have inital support ready (with working switch,
wifi, usb etc) but as this comes with PLC built-in (Atheros AR7400 chip)
> it would be pretty nice to have this working, but to be honest I am not
sure where to start at all with
>  this (writing driver is way out of my league).
> So question here, is there any driver for AR7400 in openWRT?

Those chips usually do not require a driver per-se, but just a user space
program to load their firmware and configuration blob.

> Only device with PLC support in openWRT I found is devolo USB extender:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/devolo/dlan-usb-extender
>  but this is different platform.
>
> There is GPL source for original firmware for my d-link but drivers are
obviously binary blobs :(

If you can figure out how the AR7400 is connected (presumably via MII to
one port of the switch) you surely can extract the firmware image and the
PIB (configuration blob). Then you should be able to use the open-plc
utilities [1] to load those files and configure your PLC chip (security key
etc...), those utilities are already packaged in OpenWrt.

[1]: https://github.com/qca/open-plc-utils

>
> Any help / advice will help :)
>
> thanks!
> Jacek
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