2wire HomePortal 1000SW
The 2wire HomePortal 1000SW is an ADSL gateway device that was distributed by some DSL providers (for example SBC).
Hardware
- SoC: 2wire Medusa
CPU: TriMedia (VLIW)
- RAM: 32MiB
- Non-Volatile Storage: 16MiB?
TI ACX100-based CardBus 802.11b wireless card
Firmware
The firmware is VxWorks-based, according to Wind River (the maker of VxWorks).
Hacking
decompressing image
Get a firmware recovery image from http://www.fastaccess.drivers.bellsouth.net/#2wire
search for location of bzip2 header: BZh
- copy file starting at location of the header into a new file
- bunzip2 this new file, ignore warnings about trailing garbage
- run strings(1) or hexdump(1) on resulting file
the connector between LEDs
I tested this connector for a transmitting serial line and found none. According to a JTAG company, 2wire used JTAG for debugging and thus didn't include a UART in their SoC. This leads me to believe that this is a JTAG connector.