T-Home Speedport W 303V

The T-Home Speedport W 303V is a IAD sold by T-Com with a ADSL2+ Annex B Modem, 11n Wifi and two FXS ports as well as a S0 bus connector.

There are 2 models of it, "Typ A" and "Typ B" having completely different hardware. Click here for "Typ A".

Typ B

CPU Ram Flash Network USB Serial JTag
Broadcom BCM6358@300MHz 32MiB 8MiB 1 + ADSL No Yes No

Hardware

Architecture: MIPS
Vendor: Broadcom
Bootloader: CFE
System-On-Chip: BCM6358
CPU/Speed BMIPS 4350 300 Mhz
Flash-Chip: ?
Flash size: 8192 KiB
RAM: 32 MiB
Wireless: Broadcom BCM4322 11b/g/n
Ethernet: Internal PHY
Internet: ADSL2+ Annex B (unsupported)
USB: No
Serial: Yes
JTAG: No

Opening the case

  • To remove the cover you have two remove two screws, then open a total of eight plastic clips. These are very easy to break.

Serial

port.serial

The Speedport W 303V comes pre equipped with a serial header with 3.3V TTL.

Installation

OEM easy installation

This section deals with how you install OpenWrt from a device freshly opened.

  • Configure your PC to use an IP from 192.168.2.0/24 (not .1)
  • Press and hold reset, power on the device
  • Wait until all leds are lit, then stop pressing reset
  • Upload openwrt-SPW303V-squashfs-cfe-factory.bin file to router
  • Wait for it to reboot
  • Telnet to 192.168.1.1 and set a root password, or browse to http://192.168.1.1 if LuCI is installed.

NOTE: If you are using this to recover from a non working flash, you have to first upload a stock firmware using the same procedure, then flash OpenWrt.

Upgrading OpenWrt

generic.sysupgrade

If you have already installed OpenWrt and like to reflash for e.g. upgrading to a new OpenWrt version you can upgrade using the sysupgrade command line tool. It is important that you put the firmware image into the ramdisk (/tmp) before you start flashing.

Note: You need the -sysupgrade.bin file for upgrading.

LuCI Web Upgrade Process

Terminal Upgrade Process

  • Login as root via SSH on 192.168.1.1
  • Use the following commands to upgrade.

cd /tmp/
wget http://http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm63xx/openwrt-SPW303V-squashfs-cfe-sysupgrade.bin
sysupgrade openwrt-SPW303V-squashfs-cfe-sysupgrade.bin

Basic configuration

Basic configuration After flashing, proceed with this.
Set up your Internet connection, configure wireless, configure USB port, etc.

Specific Configuration

Interfaces

The default network configuration is:

Interface Name Description Default configuration
br-lan LAN & WiFi 192.168.1.1/24
eth0 LAN port None
wl0/wlan0 WiFi Disabled

WLAN

Installation the proprietary Broadcom drivers

opkg install kmod-brcm-wl wlc

Failsafe mode

Buttons

hardware.button on howto use and configure the hardware button(s).

The Speedport W 303V has two buttons. They are Reset and Secure Easy Setup. Here, we merely name the buttons, so we can use them in the above Howto:

BUTTON Event
Reset reset
Secure Easy Setup ses

Debricking

Notes

The Bootloader (CFE) is password protected. To abort autoboot you have to either hold the reset button long enough to enter recovery mode or enter TCO& when it counts down for autoboot.

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toh/t-com/spw303v-b.txt · Last modified: 2012/04/07 20:40 by blackrock