Hi John, I'd love to and even got a VR9 unit, flashed it with openwrt trunk. During boot the vr9 dsl driver complains that it can't find the vdsl firmware. I tried vr9-fw-installer, but the URL referenced there no longer exists. Then I found http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/6446/ with that applied at least the fw-cutter works and creates a dsl_fw filesystem which results in the two files /lib/firmware/lantiq/vr9_tapi_fw.bin /lib/firmware/lantiq/vr9_dsl_fw_annex_b.bin being created, the latter having a symlink /lib/firmware/vdsl.bin pointing to it. Then I setup /etc/config/network to use ptm and vdsl tones, and had to fix the status script to use vdsl_cpe_control on VR9 https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/43101 But still couldn't get the box to sync... I also looked in forum and found that i need to load a GPL tarball from BT, found it on http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/super-fastfibreaccess/super-fastfibreaccess/landrgnu.do ("ECI Arcadyan VDSL modem") which luckily contained dsl_vr9_firmware_xdsl-05.04.06.13.01.06_05.04.02.09.01.01.tar.gz dsl_vr9_firmware_xdsl-05.04.07.09.01.06_05.04.04.04.01.01.tar.gz
I understood that the vendor is using openwrt as their SDK and claims to be friendly with us. So how come there no usable fw in owrt and things are rather chaotic? [CC'in Thomas and Eddi, as you were submitting lantiq-related patches] Thanks for the insight Daniel On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:27:40AM +0200, John Crispin wrote: > Hi, > > i updated the vdsl driver after the 904 crowd reported the new driver > works. now i am getting reports fromt he 8970 users that the new > driver fails to enter showtime. can someone who has a vdsl line please > very the functionality ? otherwise we will revert back to the previous > driver revision. > > John > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
