In reply to a post by asbokid:

Heh, thanks acpsd775,

That looks suspiciously like a UART port with four pins already installed! Oh my!

{GND, VCC (3.3v TTL), RX, TX}

Test with a voltmeter for GND and VCC (you won't need the latter though).. And then trial and error to find RX and TX.

With the pins found, one of those el-cheapo (£1.30) USB-UART converters would be fine to gain a serial port shell.. [1]

The UART port is driven at 3.3v TTL voltage levels, so can't be directly connected to an RS232 port on the PC. Many/most PCs don't even have RS232 these days.

The CPU and RAM must both be hidden under that shielding. CPU is dual MIPS-cored, Lantiq XWAY VRX288 though? [2]
The Lantiq XWAY Analog Front End & Line Driver VRX208 IC is shown on the right
NAND flash (Samsung K9F1G08U0D - 128Mbit, i.e. 16Mbyte in a TSOP48 IC package) [3]
WLAN controller (Ralink RT3062, or maybe the RT3052.. can't quite read it)
Not sure what that IC on the left is.. ethernet switch controller, presumably. Looks like it says Lantiq on it too??

With a cable, it should be unlocka-doable in a few minutes


cheers, a

[1] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180836792643
[2] http://www.lantiq.com/uploads/tx_abzlantiqproducts/P...
[3] ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/sourceforge/o/op/openbra...

Took a while but ive finally got around to ordering one of those dinky adapters waiting on the del should be mid week (coming from china did not realize till after bought haha) Ive also found the stock firmware how would i go about unlocking the router?

Ash

Heh, acpsd775,

Maybe ask "Zoot" from openwrt, he's got the same model of ZyXEL and soon figured out how to get a shell on it. I've not even seen that model LBO has done you proud there because that model usually cost a fortune!

cheers, a

In reply to a post by asbokid:

Heh, acpsd775,

Maybe ask "Zoot" from openwrt, he's got the same model of ZyXEL and soon figured out how to get a shell on it. I've not even seen that model LBO has done you proud there because that model usually cost a fortune!

cheers, a

Yea i noticed that when i got it LBOs custom firmware blocks shell so maybe ill have to source him out and see what he recommends, Im actually leaving LBO in the next 2 week switching to plusnet im having more and more problems with them and they just dont seam interested in fixing them so ill be sending them their router back lucky for me with the spare one to play with though if i can get it unlocked and fully working might even use it with my new provider plus net

Ash