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[roseway]

I am fairly confused at the moment

You're not alone...   

[GigabitEthernet]

Right, my HG612 arrived this morning and I have flashed this new test firmware (SP10 with no BT agent, GUI). All is working well so far.

My line is currently banded (REIN fault) so I won't see any performance improvement right now but if I do, I'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks for all the hard work that has gone into getting this firmware to work.

Edit: Is there any advantage to using the SP06 firmware? My HG612 came with the SP10 firmware so I thought it would make sense to use that one again.

[les-70]

   I am fairly confused at the moment

  Still confused but after much messing about all I can get is an association of behavior only with the firmware version. i.e.

  B030SP06_unlockedgui-nobtagent  ---  gives single sync and good gui response

  B028SP10_no-btagent   --gives double stage sync  and good gui response

   It looks like I erroneously associated the change from double to single sync with the wrong thing.  I am also puzzled where the unresponsive gui's have gone -- none found today even with  firmware uploads and hard resets.  Today I have cleared the browser cache and history for each test and wonder whether the poor response found before may have been due to not doing this?  No more testing today the DSLAM may need a rest!

  Comment to Alex::  you have the 035 blob in that SP10, B030SP06_unlockedgui-nobtagent has the newer 038 blob  from BT. This may be better but it is probably fair to say that it is under test at this time.  As your line is banded it may be worth waiting before trying B030SP06_unlockedgui-nobtagent.

[zhadoom]

Many thanks to Howlingwolf for the work.

Just curious. Are any chance of using this firmware in HG610 ? looking at previously looks made by Asbokid , I see that the board is the same ( HG612V HG610V ) differing only in the number of ethernet ports and leds.

Edit. I just found at Huawei website a pretty recent opensource firmware file for HG610. http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/downloadCenter.do?method=toDownloadFile&flay=software&softid=NDcxNjk=
Dated 2013-05-07

HUAWEI_VERSION=EchoLife_
HUAWEI_PRODUCTCLASS="HG610"
HUAWEI_RELEASE=HG610V100R001C02B011
HUAWEI_EXTRAVERSION=V100R001C02B011
HUAWEI_BATCHNUMBER=BC2P0.011.A2pv6C033f.d22g

[burakkucat]

Many thanks to Howlingwolf for the work.

Indeed. From all of us. 

Just curious. Are any chance of using this firmware in HG610 ? looking at previously looks made by Asbokid , I see that the board is the same ( HG612V HG610V ) differing only in the number of ethernet ports and leds.

Would you be prepared to try it and then report back with your findings, please?

[zhadoom]

Many thanks to Howlingwolf for the work.

Indeed. From all of us. 

Just curious. Are any chance of using this firmware in HG610 ? looking at previously looks made by Asbokid , I see that the board is the same ( HG612V HG610V ) differing only in the number of ethernet ports and leds.

Would you be prepared to try it and then report back with your findings, please?

I will try it if I have an original firmware to flash it back in case of something gone wrong.

[GigabitEthernet]

Comment to Alex::  you have the 035 blob in that SP10, B030SP06_unlockedgui-nobtagent has the newer 038 blob  from BT. This may be better but it is probably fair to say that it is under test at this time.  As your line is banded it may be worth waiting before trying B030SP06_unlockedgui-nobtagent.

I assume that's for me. I'm really sorry, but I'm Alec, not Alex! 

Thanks for the advice. I'll probably give it a go at some point, it's not really going to make any difference either way. At least I'll have it on there so once our line is fixed I can take another look .

[Howlingwolf]

Both my HG612s are configured for ADSL2+ only, and still sync in two stages. I'm not sure about PTM, and I can't check at the moment because I don't have a GUI interface and I don't know how to get the information from the CLI.

The current config is stored in /var/curcfg.xml. If you can get that off the modem, then any syntax highlighting editor should make it semi-legible. WAN connections are defined by a line starting '<WANIPConnectionInstance'.

Oddly, I do seem to vaguely remember noticing something of the kind myself but I didn't take much notice of it I'm afraid. I was focused on other things.

Just curious. Are any chance of using this firmware in HG610 ? looking at previously looks made by Asbokid , I see that the board is the same ( HG612V HG610V ) differing only in the number of ethernet ports and leds.

Would you be prepared to try it and then report back with your findings, please?

I will try it if I have an original firmware to flash it back in case of something gone wrong.

If it's the same board then, assuming it uses the same firmware layout, you can dump the flashmem using the serial port and extract the components needed from that.

It will require a certain amount of open case surgery.

[zhadoom]

If it's the same board then, assuming it uses the same firmware layout, you can dump the flashmem using the serial port and extract the components needed from that.

The serial port is TTL 5 volts or 3.3volts ?
I already have one usb serial cable ( PL2303 ) used to data transfer with an old Siemens cellphone.

[burakkucat]

The PL2303 based USB to serial cable should do the trick.

Er, 3.3V, if I have remembered correctly. Application of a DMM's probes should confirm it. 

[roseway]

The current config is stored in /var/curcfg.xml. If you can get that off the modem, then any syntax highlighting editor should make it semi-legible. WAN connections are defined by a line starting '<WANIPConnectionInstance'.

That string doesn't seem to exist in the B030SP06_unlocked firmware. However there is a line starting:

<WANPTMLinkConfig Enable="1"

which seems to confirm that the PTM interface is active at present.

[les-70]

  In /var/curcfg.xmlI I only have a WANDSLLinkConfig Enable="1" and WANPTMLinkConfig Enable is absent, I guess this is consistent with a single sync. Out of interest I will do some tests to try to change the WANxxxLinkConfigs in this file.

[GigabitEthernet]

I don't suppose somebody could take a deeper look into the bug whereby the HG612 will only allow you to use its gateway IP for DNS when a client is assigned an IP by DHCP?

I would, but I wouldn't even know where to start!

Sorry to bump my own post, but it appears that it may have been missed.

It's fine if it can't be fixed, so don't get hung up on it.

Thank you .

[roseway]

I've reinstalled the HG612 with B030SP06_unlockedgui-nobtagent firmware and checked the memory usage (all values are kB)

Code: [Select]

                Used    Free    Shared    Buffers    Cached
                ----    ----    ------    -------    ------

Not connected, with GUI:    22428    6328    0    2188    6480
Not connected, GUI killed:    21840    6904    0    2188    6484
Connected, with GUI        22844    5900    0    2244    6700
Connected, GUI killed        22220    6524    0    2244    6704


In all cases remote devices failed to receive internet data. So the problem isn't the presence of the GUI as such, nor would it seem to be a memory issue.

Having killed the GUI, I'd like to try restarting it, but I'm not sure how to do that. The command appears to be /bin/web, but however I execute that command it doesn't work.

[*** Sorry about the formatting - it looked OK on preview]

[les-70]

which seems to confirm that the PTM interface is active at present.

  Removing the connection ptm1 on the PTM gui tab does remove the WANPTMLinkConfig Enable="1" and assuming an ATM connection is set up it just leaves the WANDSLLinkConfig Enable="1".  I favour deleting unused things but after tests I can't tell whether it helps - it certainly does not hinder anything.
 

In all cases remote devices failed to receive internet data.

    I used DHCP on the HG612 then to router and on to wireless but no internet access failures here - in a few 24 periods now.  I am hopeless re LAN things but I think I once had problems with time servers out of sync between devices.