TrendNet 452BRP is a WiFi+4xLAN(ethernet-100) router.
There are 3 different devices, marked as different revisions. Mine is initial revision A.
http://www.trendnet.com/en/downloads/in … 452BRP.htm - images of different revisions.
This model is not listed in known hardware at http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware … direct=toh
So to run the OpenWRT i need the advice to identify hardware and proper build for it.
This model has quite buggy firmware and no chance for update of it. Its look-and-feel looked much better than one of wired-only D-Link (604P? 704? no mater) I used before i wanted Wi-Fi, however it turned out that despite of techy look it was cut on features and had clear bugs at the same time.
Especially buggy to my experience was Wi-Fi: somedays computers (notebooks with intel centrino, desktop with trendnet USB stick) were working quite nice. Other days the Wi-Fi connection freezed after several minutes of work and needed to reconnect via disabling and re-enabling radio ot Wi-Fi network cards. Maybe that may be due to Ostankino TV tower quite close to the window, but signal level meters were fine and distance was 3-7 meters w/o anythign between antennas, but 1cm-think wooden table legs. And qutie frequently routing was lost (until reset of the device) between wired and Wi-Fi PCs. Each group saw another, each group was finely ruoted into WAN, but none could access (even ping) each other.
Together with other bugs, this make me put some hope on the OpenWRT. And... What the beast is this router ?
Below is info that i hope wil help people, familiar with hardware, to identify it, suggest build and perhaps put the infro into known-hardware wiki table.
1) it seems that some Asus routers are made by the same OEM as TrendNet 452BRP Rev.A
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=4858
2) Here is its PCB - i hope it to be quite usual and generic, so i hope someone will just recognise it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60489289@N00/2121185290/
3) below are markings on the chips:
a: perhaps RAM
MXS051411
29LV800BBTC-70
2L407000
70 seems to be 70ns timings, LV - low-voltage... Guess i can find the datasheet, but maybe the arkking is already easy to read to someone here - so what are the features of the chip?
b: perhaps flash-RAM?
ESMT
M12L64164A- 7T
SZP1C50GM 0518
c: Wi-Fi processor
ATHEROS
AR2313A-00
B30583B
0525
this "-00" - does it mean initial and most buggy revision of chip?
d: CPU and wired LAN
MARVELL LOGO
88E6060-RCJ
A36554.3
0451 B0E