Broadcom 6345 Linux distribution

Project Description

The objective of the project is to provide a flexible, full working Linux distribution for Broadcom 6435 chip based routers (some examples are US Robotics 9105/9106, Siemens SE515, Dynalink RTA230, Buffalo WMR-G54 Inventel DW 200 and TCom Sinus 1054 DSL). If you own a different router and you think it has a Broadcom 6345 chip, please, let us know (see Contact section below).

All routers are quite cheap and come with Linux preinstalled. Some of the 6435 chip features are MIPS32® processor with MMU, a PCMCIA host, a 1.1 USB interface and a UART.

We didn't still make any release. The more you help us, the sooner we'll make the first release. This is a free software project :)

News

• (2004-10-14) Uploded photos of the Buffalo WMR-G54 and Siemens SE15 internals. Thanks to Ray Bellis and Jens Beyer for taking the photos.
• (2004-10-08) Managed to get a serial console from a USR9106 router. You can see some photos about how we did it
• (2004-09-30) This web page was added
• (2004-09-27) Sourceforge project was registered and brcm6345-linux-devel mailing list was created

What has already been done

• Tools to split/build firmware files to/from its different parts (bootloader, filesystem image and kernel image)
• LZMA patches for cramfs tools (Broadcom modified kernel supports LZMA compression)
• Example of USR9106 firmware modification. A ssh daemon was added to the firmware. We are not responsible of the possible damage this firmware can cause to your hardware.

Links

• Sourceforge project site
• linux-mips.org
• Jérôme Petazzoni's BroadCom96345 Wiki
• Robert Bowler's USRobotics 9105 page
• Alfonso Acosta's USRobotics 9106 page
• USRobotics GPL Code Central
• Siemens SE515 firmware source code
• Inventel GPL repository
• Broadcom 6345 chip page
• Broadcom Downloadable Resources site (includes CFE bootloader sourcecode)
• LZMA unix port
• OpenWrt: a linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G

Contributing and contacting us

If you want to contribute to the project (web developing, coding, site administration, hardware donations ... ) or contact us please subscribe to the brcm6345-linux-devel mailing list

Important Notes

• We are in no way associated with other software or hardware manufacturer mentioned on this website unless expressed explicitly.
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