How to unlock the ECI B-FOCuS VDSL2 CPE modem:Connect a serial cable to the PCB of the ECI and power up the device:
The bootloader should start:
ROM VER: 1.0.5
CFG 01 ...
DDR size from 0xa0000000 - 0xa1ffffff
DDR check ok... start booting...
U-Boot 1.0.4 (Feb 16 2011 - 13:53:56)
CLOCK CPU 333M RAM 166M
DRAM: 32 MB ..
FLASH MANUFACT: c2
FLASH DEVICEID: cb ..
The Linux kernel will auto boot:
Starting kernel ...
Infineon xDSL CPE VR9. ..
Linux version 2.6.20.19 (hyhuang@BSD7.localdomain)
(gcc version 3.4.6 (OpenWrt-2.0)) #1 Tue Aug 9 11:27:46 CST 2011 ..
Arriving finally at a login prompt.
Login with username
admin and password
admin:
login: admin
Password: admin
BusyBox v1.00 (2011.08.09-03:28+0000) Built-in shell (msh) ..
Alpha #
At the
Alpha # prompt, enter the six commands below to 'unlock' the device:
Alpha # xmldbc -s /switch/lan_access_cpe_enable 1
Alpha # xmldbc -s /switch/port:2/activate 1
Alpha # xmldbc -D /var/tmp/rgdb.xml
Alpha # gzip /var/tmp/rgdb.xml
Alpha # rgcfg save -n /dev/mtdblock/3 -c /var/tmp/rgdb.xml.gz
Alpha # ifconfig br0 192.168.1.55 # adjust this IP address to suit your own subnet #
The unlocked ECI VDSL modem should now be accessible via telnet and web GUI at
http://192.168.1.55.
N.B. the ECI web interface is too buggy for Firefox. Though
Internet Exploder,
Chromium, and
Safari should all work okay.
Username and password for telnet and web login are, as above:
admin and
adminFinally, the IP address of the ECI should be permanently changed through the web interface to suit local subnet. (The ECI's default IP is 192.168.168.168, as shown below)
cheers, a
EDIT: background info on what those commands are actually doing is at
http://hackingecibfocusv2fubirevb.wordpress.com/