TP-LINK TD-W8968 v1

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bgn (N300)
300Mbps Wireless N USB ADSL2+ Modem Router
Wikipedia	TP-Link
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Status Unknown
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	TP-LINK TD-W8968 v1
FCC ID	TE7TDW8968V1
IC ID	8853A-W8968V1
Board ID	11052028961-2.0
Type	wireless router, dsl modem
Series	TD-W8968
CPU1	TrendChip TC3162U
CPU1 Type	MIPS RISC R3000
CPU1 Speed	450 MHz ( 2 cores )
Flash1 Chip	Winbond W25Q64BVSIG
Flash1 Size	8 MiB8,388,608 B <br />65,536 Kib <br />8,192 KiB <br />64 Mib <br />0.00781 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	32 MiB33,554,432 B <br />262,144 Kib <br />32,768 KiB <br />256 Mib <br />0.0313 GiB <br /> (SDRAM)
RAM1 Chip	Winbond Model?
ETH chip1	TrendChip TC3162U
Switch	TrendChip TC2205F
Ethernet Port Count	4-100MbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock FW OS	Linux 2.6.22.15
Expansion IF types	USB 2.0
USB ports	1
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	12 VDC, 1.5 A
Connector type	barrel
Flags: ADSL2+
Additional chips xDSL (ADSL2+) AFE;TrendChip;TC3086;;1;
Other
Default IP address: 192.168.1.1 the IP 192.168.1.1 is used by 1324 additional devices of which 111 are TP-LINK devices Default login user: admin Default login password: admin admin:admin credentials used by 1342 additional devices of which 280 are TP-LINK devices
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Proware
Retail
FCC approval date	26 October 2012
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	Ralink RT5392
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	RP-SMA
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio1 chip2 brand TP-LINK TD-W8968 v1 TrendChip Ralink TP-LINK TD-W8968 v2 Ralink Ralink TP-LINK TD-W8968 v3 Broadcom Broadcom

For a list of all currently documented Ralink chipsets with specifications, see Ralink.
For a list of all currently documented TrendChip chipsets with specifications, see TrendChip.

For a list of all currently documented TP-LINK device with specifications, see TP-LINK.

• 300 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.) = N300 class

Overview

"11052028961-2.0" and "Rev:1.0sp1" is silkscreened

on the board in the FCC photos.

Links of Interest

Specifications

• On HWUpgrade
• On WhirlPool

JTAG-Serial Info

Serial

Boot log

boot log • >>

TC3162U at Tue Oct 15 16:25:32 HKT 2013 version 0.9 Memory size 32MB Found SPI Flash 8MiB EN25Q64 at 0xb0000000 Press any key in 0.1 secs to enter boot command mode. .. Decompress to 80020000 free_mem_ptr = 80600000 free_mem_ptr_end = 80700000 Uncompressing [LZMA] ... done. Linux version 2.6.22.15 (root * localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.6) # 3 Wed Nov 20 15:47:54 HKT 2013 TrendChip TC3162U SOC prom init Enable IMEM addr = 2e4000 Enable DMEM addr = 361000 CPU revision is: 0000cd01 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 02000000 * 00000000 (usable) Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 8128 Kernel command line: console = ttyS0 rootfstype = squashfs Primary instruction cache 32kB, linesize 16 bytes. Primary data cache 8kB, linesize 16 bytes. Synthesized TLB refill handler (17 instructions). Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (31 instructions). Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (31 instructions). Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (25 instructions). PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes) console handover: boot [early0] -> real [ttyS0] Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Memory: 28740k / 32768k available (2864k kernel code, 4028k reserved, 475k data, 140k init, 0k highmem) SLUB: Genslabs = 17, HWalign = 16, Order = 0-1, MinObjects = 4, CPUs = 1, Nodes = 1 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 NET: Registered protocol family 16 tc3162_pcie_init registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset tc3162: system has PCI BIOS registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset PCI: Bridge: 0000: 00: 00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: 1f700000-1f7fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Enabling device 0000: 00: 00.0 (0000 -> 0002) NET: Registered protocol family 8 NET: Registered protocol family 20 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) TCP reno registered TC3162 hardware watchdog module loaded. squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher fuse init (API version 7.8) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) ttyS0 at I / O 0xbfbf0003 (irq = 0) is a TC3162 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 NET: Registered protocol family 24 Register flash device: flash0 tc3162: flash device 0x01000000 at 0x10000000 tc3162: Found SPIFLASH 8MiB EN25Q64 Creating 6 MTD partitions on "tc3162": 0x00000000-0x00020000: "boot" 0x00020000-0x00130000: "kernel" 0x00130000-0x007d0000: "rootfs" 0x007d0000-0x007e0000: "romfile" 0x007e0000-0x007f0000: "config" 0x007f0000-0x00800000: "radio" Mirror / redirect action on u32 classifier Actions configured Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (256 buckets, 5120 max) ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink. IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team TCP cubic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 10 ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 15 Ebtables v2.0 registered 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb * candelatech.com> All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem * redhat.com> SQUASHFS error: Unknown inode type 15 in squashfs_iget! List of all partitions: 1f00 128 mtdblock0 (driver?) 1f01 1088 mtdblock1 (driver?) 1f02 6784 mtdblock2 (driver?) 1f03 64 mtdblock3 (driver?) 1f04 64 mtdblock4 (driver?) 1f05 64 mtdblock5 (driver?) No filesystem could mount root, tried: squashfs Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (31,2)