It works (apart ADSL) using latest releases:

http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm63xx/openwrt-96348GW-generic-squashfs-cfe.bin

http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc4/brcm63xx/openwrt-96348GW-generic-squashfs-cfe.bin

Someone tried with ASUS/BROADCOM ADSL native binaries?

This router is very similar to other devices using the same Broadcom 96348 hardware (ADSL2+, 802.11g), like:

• USR 9107/9108
• Hitachi SpeedWeb
• Linksys WAG54GX2
• Telsey "Alice W-Gate" and Pirelli "Alice-W-Gate+" rented by "Telecom Italia" to ADSL customers (also found, cheap, sold on many radio-rally).

Image of the top of the motherboard

Image of the bottom of the motherboard

This device runs Linux. A firmware upgrade is available on the Asus Site. It is a squashed filesystem with some other data appended to it. The squashfs is 2.0 and uses an LZMA Broadcom-flavour compression method.

Asus, like other, now has correctly put online the GPL source code:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?model=wl-600g&SLanguage=en-us

The stock firmware runs a 2.6.8.1 kernel and a bunch of other binary modules are in /lib. See the File Listing for details.

Firmware from Asus is quite buggy and unstable, it does not offer many important functions like static ip table.
Backfire firmware works very well on this router without support for ADSL. Configuring VLANs it is possible to use it as normal router setting one port from switch as wan.

• 3.0.0.8A
• 3.0.0.8B
• 1.0.3.6A
• 1.0.3.5A
• 1.0.3.3A
• 1.0.0.3B

J6 is a serial port that could be cabled to get access to router console. 115000 8N1
Signals are 3.3V like many other boards.
Pinout:
GND | VC
N/A | TX
N/A | RX

Need to be cabled directly to CPU pins.

TODO

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=7355

Since this part is identical for all devices, see Basic configuration.

To connect stuff to the USB port, please see Connect stuff to the USB port.