Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 10:41 Post subject: Senao Ralink based routers and their ODM/OEM vendors
Senaos line of RaLink based routers are sold as Engenius/Senao but are also rebranded (ODM and OEM) for a whole bunch of other vendors and they are:
Amper (Spain, only 1 router)
Corega (Japan)
Encore (US and Mexico)
Hamlet (Italy)
NetComm (Australia)
MSI (only 1 router)
Rosewill (US)
Sitecom (Europe)
Zyxel (only 1 router)
Hardware:
Looking at Senaos circuit boards one can see that they are of high quality build and Senao has created
a smart layout where they can use an RT3050 or a RT3052 SOC on the same type of circuit board.
There is usually place for 2 DRAM's and a 16MB router is either populated with 2 8MB chips or a single 16MB chip.
Routers with a single 16MB chip can easily be upgraded to 32MB and Senao obviously gives their ODM/OEM vendors a choice of memory configuration.
I have compiled a list of all these routers from Engenius and the ODM/OEM vendors by collecting information from FCC photos, photos from dd-wrt threads and photos from elsewhere on the net.
I have also downloaded GPL code and stock firmware when it has been available together with vendors specifications.
Software:
The header of the stock firmware tells us in the first 16 bytes which Senao basic model a router is based on:
byte 11 is the board identifier and the table below does probably contain a few errors,
the sources I have used has sometimes been quite contradictory.
Any feedback on errors is much appreciated!
I have updated entries in the Supported Devices wiki page for Sitecom, Rosewill, Corega, NetComm.
MSI, and Encore and have referenced them to their corresponding Engenius router. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
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* it looks almost exactly the same as the Senao model.
* apart from the plastic it is the same: the LEDs are in the same place/order/spacing, the ports are in the same position and coloured the same
* the chipset matches, both CPU and radio
If I pop it open and have a look inside, will there be anything that gives it away?
EDIT: Popped it open. The PCB has no id marks on it, however there is space for two memory chips, only one is taken. There also blanks for another TX/RX. (I assume that Senao make one board for 2050/2051/2052).
All I'm really after is the addition of FATX Mass Storage and Samba. Otherwise it's 3G modem support is excellent.
Tempted to just give the ESR6650 r15962 build a go!
Here a cross reference list between the different routers, it is based on the board identifier in the stock firmwares.
The board identifier has for some router versions been extended to 2 bytes but it looks like the last byte still denotes the board type, the extra byte may be used for indicating a slight hardware change like memory configuaration or antenna configuration.
(See A0 11 versus 00 11 )
Could you tell me if the NetComm NP805N Works? I see the NP801 - 4N do, I have an 805 and want this installed.
Thank you
Moderator note 08.25.2021: Using the following links, I determined that the header is not like the Senao devices referenced in this thread; So this device cannot be supported without proper support information provided.
Hello. Thank you for topic.
I've got a router Sitecom WLR-3000
If I understand correctly first bites of firmware of my router is 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 00 00 00 23 31 32 33 00
Is it support DD-WRT?
I also put into the message firmware from site of Sitecom.