Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

10.07.2017 22:07, Damian Kaczkowski: Hello Sylwester. On 10 July 2017 at 20:10, Sylwester Petela wrote: I used the following pictures for visualising and flowing the traces. The pictures are in the gimp format and have multiple layers: TD-W8980 - Annex A:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hello Sylwester. On 10 July 2017 at 20:10, Sylwester Petela wrote: > I used the following pictures for visualising and flowing the traces. > The pictures are in the gimp format and have multiple layers: > > TD-W8980 - Annex A: >

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

These are some findings that I've along with Mathias Kresin made quite time ago (hardware part): On F3 vs F1 near transformer was capacitor .022j630p (annex B) .027j630p (annex A) You can check that as on most images I don't see its value. As for differences between boards I'll check it

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hello all. I have done some research regarding soft-switching DSL Annex. I got few boards which are able to operate in Annex A or B without hardware mods of the hybrid. Seems that dsl_control is able to send some commands to the DSL PHY so it can sync with Annex A line while being equipped with

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hello all. I have done some research regarding soft-switching DSL Annex. I got few boards which are able to operate in Annex A or B without hardware mods of the hybrid. Seems that dsl_control is able to send some commands to the DSL PHY so it can sync with Annex A line while being equipped with

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi, On 15/08/2015 23:38, Mathias Kresin wrote: Am 24.07.2015 um 01:20 schrieb Martin Blumenstingl: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, it just dawned on me that they can be doing just that. In the bootloader. This is the only part of

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Am 24.07.2015 um 01:20 schrieb Martin Blumenstingl: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, it just dawned on me that they can be doing just that. In the bootloader. This is the only part of firmware we are not changing. If PCBs turn out to be

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi all, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Alexander Couzens lyn...@fe80.eu wrote: I've seen the same. With annex b device, same firmware, the modem syncs to adsl, with annex a not. meanwhile, I got an annex b device, and with the same openwrt build, dsl firmware and config (sysupgrade backup)

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

I've took a look on 2 devices. They differ a lot, there might be different revisions. I'll take some photos tomorrow. PS: by poking around I found target/linux/lantiq/patches-3.18/0007-MIPS-lantiq-add-basic-tffs-driver.patch which looks like it reads the annex version off a mtd part I don't

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

If someone would like to search for differences on the pcb, I can make photos of both pcbs. Please do, it might be interesting. Also, if they are not identical (except for ADSL annex) it might be very difficult to find relevant differences. It sort of does not make sense to me that the only

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Martin, On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com wrote: Since my latest patches were merged into the OpenWrt repository the patch which updates the lantiq DSL drivers/application did not apply anymore. Here is the updated patch which applies

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: so why not use some spare GPIO to pull front-end configuration pin to state in which it has to be Actually, it just dawned on me that they can be doing just that. In the bootloader. This is the only part of

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:51:33 +0200 Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Andre, On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Andre Heider a.hei...@gmail.com wrote: The dsl line never syncs, and letting 'vdsl_cpe_control --c' just sit there spits out repeatedly: 'DSL_CPE:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Alexander, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Alexander Couzens lyn...@fe80.eu wrote: If someone would like to search for differences on the pcb, I can make photos of both pcbs. soldering rx, tx and gnd on a pcb for a serial connection is as far as my hardware skills go, but maybe we can

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, it just dawned on me that they can be doing just that. In the bootloader. This is the only part of firmware we are not changing. If PCBs turn out to be identical we might want to check this. That was my

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Martin, On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com wrote: This sounds like an annex incompability? Was I wrong and there is a hardware difference and I cannot use the non B model with annex b? Indeed, I have read multiple times that the DSL

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi, On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Sylwester Petela ssc...@gmail.com wrote: Where did You get/find v4.16.2.4 packages ? Someone with access to lantiq's UGW replied last month on the mailing list and sent me the updated package versions. Since my latest patches were merged into the OpenWrt

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Where did You get/find v4.16.2.4 packages ? W dniu 2015-07-10 o 19:31, Aleksander Wałęski pisze: Hello Martin, I've just applied your patch against trunk (r46292) and flashed this firmware. Unfortunately linked patch did not apply cleanly because some of your changes were accepted into openwrt

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hello Martin, I've just applied your patch against trunk (r46292) and flashed this firmware. Unfortunately linked patch did not apply cleanly because some of your changes were accepted into openwrt trunk. I was able to fix it locally but I hope you will update your patch for others to test it. So

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Sylwester Petela ssc...@gmail.com wrote: After 9 days and bit of performance drop I reverted back to stripped out init script and also lowered debug level to default so I can track what is causing these issues. If it is a driver issue then you can test the new

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Flo, On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Florian Eckert eckert.flor...@googlemail.com wrote: I have the new source packages for lantiq dsl stuffs. This are the new packages rom UGW-6.1. As far as I know these are the *latest* driver versions. Do you have a link to those packages (or a link to

[OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hello, I have the new source packages for lantiq dsl stuffs. This are the new packages rom UGW-6.1. I don´t know the differences in the new packages! Martin Blumenstingl [xdarklight] on github - UGW-6.1 lib_ifxos-1.5.14.tar.gz - lib_ifxos-1.5.19.tar.gz

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Try playing with /etc/init.d/dsl_control when you'll have a moment to spare to see if all parameters it passes to control application are necessary. It seems that the lowlevel configuration is indeed not required

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

As I mentioned earlier I am already running with very minimal configuration. My control process parameters list looks like this: /sbin/vdsl_cpe_control -i -n /sbin/dsl_notify.sh -f /lib/firmware/vdsl.bin -A /lib/firmware/vdsl.scr -i is required, but actual initialization bits are not (in my

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

W dniu 2015-06-06 o 14:18, Aleksander Wałęski pisze: Interesting. Have you made a note of which parameter made such a difference? I guess disabling ReTx could potentially cause lower sync speeds because DSLAM needs to compensate for lack of retransmissions. It may be enabled/disabled in

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Try playing with /etc/init.d/dsl_control when you'll have a moment to spare to see if all parameters it passes to control application are necessary. Selecting between ADSL and VDSL may be necessary but firmware for

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Extraction procedure is exactly the same as for regular TD-W9980. Thanks, I have it that this afternoon. I was expecting only Annex difference, but this firmware may be specifically tweaked for Germany (# for

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Aleksander, On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: add --enable-debug-prints=err to ltq-vdsl-app and change enable-debug-prints to err in ltq-vdsl-vr9. ... Additionally, I added --disable-dsl-ceoc to ltq-vdsl-app since CEOC is disabled in API by

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Thanks for answer. I cannot unfortunately test new patch right away, because I sort of put this device in production but if it is only compilation flags that changed that I am sure it works. I suspected some kind of memory leak, because driver control process is quite heavy on memory but it does

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Aleksander Wałęski olewa...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you and Aleksander can try this patch again? Sure, I'll flash my device with this and let it run for some time to see if there are any problems. Ok, I tested your latest patch and everything seems to work but

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Good news! It works. Furthermore, I could only get it to work on my line with this new driver. I tried old driver with 6 different firmwares (VDSL fw versions: 3.2.8, 3.4.A, 4.6.D, 4.7.9, 6.8.4, 7.4.3). Older ones got me as far as full_init [0x380] but then process was interrupted and started all

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

W dniu 2015-05-25 o 08:00, Aleksander Wałęski pisze: Good news! It works. Furthermore, I could only get it to work on my line with this new driver. I tried old driver with 6 different firmwares (VDSL fw versions: 3.2.8, 3.4.A, 4.6.D, 4.7.9, 6.8.4, 7.4.3). Older ones got me as far as full_init

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Sylwester Petela ssc...@gmail.com wrote: Getting rid of init script isn't good probably, as original driver in UGW passes the same commands (mostly) to dsl_control. I _suspect_ that new firmware is detecting line parameters automatically. If this is true then

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com wrote: I have taken those sources (as they contain the complete build system) and updated my patch: [1] The original tarballs can be found here: [2], [3], [4] It seems that there are two more versions in

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

W dniu 2015-05-23 o 23:22, Aleksander Wałęski pisze: Sylwester Petela sscapi at gmail.com writes: W dniu 2015-05-05 o 09:31, Johannes Berg pisze: On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 09:28 +0200, Sylwester Petela wrote: [ 458.772000] DSL[00]: WARNING - Data Path counters are not supported for the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Waiting impatiently for this new patch. For now I can say that I have problems with old driver combined with newest TP-LINK dsl firmware on VDSL line. Once I establish known working configuration I'll build fw with latest driver and test again. New patch is ready: [0] Let me know if VDSL

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Was quite obvious but I've missed it, default debug level have been changed Excellent catch, I should have noticed it when I removed -DDSL_DEBUG_DISABLE Newest trunk with patches from xdarklight, packages from DrayTek. What do you mean exactly with packages from DrayTek? Full log:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com wrote: Was quite obvious but I've missed it, default debug level have been changed Excellent catch, I should have noticed it when I removed -DDSL_DEBUG_DISABLE This might come in handy for DSL tinkerers,

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Also, using binwalk, I was able to extract dsl firmware from latest W9980 firmware update (TD-W9980_V1_150507). filename: xcpe_574306_571801.bin version: 5.7.4.3.0.6-5.7.1.8.0.1 sha1sum: f8a13f16f5ead64bb0d2d551fbef8f1a838322f7 Thanks a lot - added that one as well.

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Sylwester Petela sscapi at gmail.com writes: W dniu 2015-05-05 o 09:31, Johannes Berg pisze: On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 09:28 +0200, Sylwester Petela wrote: [ 458.772000] DSL[00]: WARNING - Data Path counters are not supported for the FE! That seems pretty harmless - the driver code

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

W dniu 2015-05-05 o 09:31, Johannes Berg pisze: On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 09:28 +0200, Sylwester Petela wrote: [ 458.772000] DSL[00]: WARNING - Data Path counters are not supported for the FE! That seems pretty harmless - the driver code is really really ugly though. Probably should just

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 09:28 +0200, Sylwester Petela wrote: [ 458.772000] DSL[00]: WARNING - Data Path counters are not supported for the FE! That seems pretty harmless - the driver code is really really ugly though. Probably should just remove the message. Cannot find witch function

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 23:16 +0200, Sylwester Petela wrote: [ 456.056000] DSL[00]: negative response for MsgID=0x2B0A (Class=0x3100) - on try 0! [ 456.764000] DSL[00]: Error for send CMD MsgID=0x2B0A - KEEP line! [ 456.768000] DSL[00]: ERROR - ReTx PM counters read failed! [

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

W dniu 2015-05-05 o 08:56, Johannes Berg pisze: On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 23:16 +0200, Sylwester Petela wrote: [ 456.056000] DSL[00]: negative response for MsgID=0x2B0A (Class=0x3100) - on try 0! [ 456.764000] DSL[00]: Error for send CMD MsgID=0x2B0A - KEEP line! [ 456.768000] DSL[00]:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Martin, Has anyone tried any of these firmwares with newer drivers to see if they can do vectoring? Put another way - does anyone have a driver that works with firmware 6.x? Neither v4.11.4 nor v4.11.11 support vectoring. Thus you need at least v4.15.2 (see my other thread which

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 21:00 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: Like I previously said: there's probably something wrong at my end. I have the Annex A version of the TD-W8970 and I am trying to use it with my Annex B ADSL connection (for the record: I am not using a splitter). While trying to

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

W dniu 2015-05-04 o 21:13, Johannes Berg pisze: On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 21:00 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: Like I previously said: there's probably something wrong at my end. I have the Annex A version of the TD-W8970 and I am trying to use it with my Annex B ADSL connection (for the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

Hi Johannes, I'm re-sending this because I accidentally replied only to you in the first email. There's at least one firmware file that should do vectoring that you haven't covered, in more recent tarballs for the Speedport W921V (you have V_5.3.4.A.1.6-5.3.6.4.1.2 from an older one)

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 00:00 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: 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). You can run the w921v_fw_cutter also on newer firmware for that,

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

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

[OpenWrt-Devel] lantiq DSL drivers / firmware info

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