Hi again, nimda,
No problem at all, I can accommodate ANY hosting needs, especially to aid the greater good of a freed community --decentralising, and taking back control/data, is my computing MO.
A man after my own heart!
..would you mind sending me (or attaching) the bin file, as I don't want a Google account --yes, one of those!
Hi.. the perms were stuck. The dump is downloadable now without a gmail account..
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6wW18mYskvBMzZkODg5NGQtNjdjOS00ZjNjLTljNTctZTJkNmYxYWFlMTk1Once this is opened, what then? What are the options? Fundamental question, and possibly obvious answers, but I'm naive in this area of computing, what cool things can be done?
Good question.. I think people just like getting under the bonnet. Paul (Bald_Eagle) and Burakkucat have done some amazing things with graphing scripts, using the low-level diagnostic xdsl data that the unlocked Huawei provides.
My current interest is to try and 'fit' that diagnostic data, especially the channel characteristics (aka insertion loss aka attenuation) to parametised cable reference models. This would hopefully lead to an accurate analysis of loop quality, and estimated loop length. The data could be analysed for common fault conditions - bridge taps, etc.
Other options include the development of server-side scripts for graphing. This code would run on the embedded device itself.
I guess ultimately, people would like to see an open source router distribution (openwrt et al) running on these devices, but that would involve the release of the DSP drivers by Broadcom and Lantiq, who are less than forthcoming.
cheers, a
EDIT: Yes, obtaining serial port access involves soldering the header pins back onto the modem board. It's not hard with a fine-tipped soldering bit.
JTAG is a different serial protocol, primarily for debugging hardware. It's similar to SPI and has a clock signal (TCK), two data lines for input and output (TDI and TDO) and a control line (TMS) to manage the state of the JTAG engine.
Unless the bootloader gets wrecked, it should be possible to unlock the ECI using just the TTL serial port.
