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Author Topic: Getnet GA-524WA  (Read 3315 times)

catzi

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Getnet GA-524WA
« on: September 12, 2011, 09:28:02 AM »
Just thought I had to post on this. Not available yet but this wireless-n, ADSL router, on a well-known broadband buying site, will retail for less than £13!

How is that possible? I can only assume it's made from milk bottle tops and paperclips.

I'm thinking about buying one when it becomes available just to see if it isn't an empty plastic box with a fake aerial! :)
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roseway

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Re: Getnet GA-524WA
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2011, 09:44:28 AM »
At that price, I suppose there's nothing to lose. :)
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Re: Getnet GA-524WA
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2011, 10:31:21 PM »
The getnet.eu website has firmware images for the models GA524WA and the GA524WB.

http://www.getnet.eu/products_GA-524WA.B.html

I wonder what chipset is being used..

The header of the firmware image isn't in the normal Broadcom format, but I spy the magic number ("sqsh") for a big-endian squash file system.

$ xxd -l 0x100 GA-524WA_Getnet_v1.11_upg.bin

0000000: a000 0003 8000 0000 0026 c3b3 8000 0000  .........&......
0000010: fc87 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 bfc1 0000  ................
0000040: 7371 7368 0000 0247 0015 145a 0015 144e  sqsh...G...Z...N
0000050: 0015 1456 0014 f610 0015 0474 0002 0001  ...V.......t....
0000060: 9c78 0010 4002 014c 2867 aa00 0000 0008  .x..@..L(g......
0000070: 0513 b200 0100 0000 0000 2500 1514 4a00  ..........%...J.
0000080: 3f91 4584 6834 8a09 0a40 62ae 9e29 20b2  ?.E.h4...@b..) .
0000090: fa5e 1008 273f 9d2e d8c4 0445 ce72 a4f8  .^..'?.....E.r..
00000a0: 65c3 71a7 c03f dfcd bb29 8e28 3f74 81ad  e.q..?...).(?t..
00000b0: ae9a ba5f d30c fc89 c63d e6fe 4026 3483  ..._.....=..@&4.
00000c0: af49 2ea6 b03c f5c5 6b4d de04 fd17 020b  .I...<..kM......
00000d0: 07c2 84cf 6e21 70be 64ad 7664 15d4 be82  ....n!p.d.vd....
00000e0: e190 8e73 b0e3 d681 f0a3 8cf2 e8cb 62ad  ...s..........b.
00000f0: bf07 1657 7c94 b5d5 68c9 5397 a63a a8d1  ...W|...h.S..:..

There are tools that can be used to extract the file system image (if it is squashfs) for those who want to modify the firmware.

Although often, the manufacturer modifies the code for the squash tools to make this as difficult as possible!

Cheers, a

[1] http://forum.loggytronic.com/index.php?topic=177.msg994#msg994
[2] http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/openbox4/trunk/tools/nb4-extract/nb6-extract.c?view=markup

« Last Edit: September 15, 2011, 10:33:39 PM by asbokid »
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