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Same hardware as TD-W8980.

Lantiq based soc ( 64MB RAM, 8MB Flash )
Lantiq based xdsl
Atheros wireless (2.4GHz 2x2 )
Lantiq wireless ( 5.8GHz 2x2 )

I just crossflash my TD-W8980 using the 9980 firmware to gain VDSL support.

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TD-W8980_v1

Good evening. Have you confirmed it's working as a VDSL modem after crossflashing? Which firmware have you used?

Thank u in advance!

(Last edited by koozoop on 21 Aug 2014, 16:37)

koozoop wrote:

Good evening. Have you confirmed it's working as a VDSL modem after crossflashing? Which firmware have you used?

Thank u in advance!

The xdsl chipset is the same as used in TD-W8970 and TD-8980. The openwrt firmware for 8970 supports vdsl2.

I expect to test vdsl2 compatibility this weekend. I will post the results.

The firmware update was made using the official firmware for TD-W9980, striping U-boot and flashing via serial console.

See here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/td-w8970

firmware ( TD-W9980 ) http://www.tp-link.com/resources/softwa … 140613.zip

Thanx! Will be looking forward to your results.

TD-W8980 crossflashed to TD-W9980.
Tested with VDSL2 line with profile 17a downstream 55Mb/s and upstream 6Mb/s.

https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e25a/qrvlji591qvr9dx7g.jpg

Works perfectly.

Good evening, I have the td-w8970 and i'd like to use it as vdsl router. I saw that the user zhadoom could make TD-W8980 crossflashed for TD-W9980. Could someone explain me what "crossflash" means? Can I do the same in the td-w8970? Thank you.

means flashing a firmware for another model wink

I think you can do that with 8970, check wiki for how to access serial console.

You will need a ttl (3.3V) serial interface..

hi
can you pleas post a step by step guide it will be very helpfull to all the pepole who buy this prodcut and didnt know its not suport up to 24 mb ...it cost alot and provide 20 % of my boradband cap...
thanks in advance

please ?...

zhadoom can you assist plaese?

pppp i just got it by mail and it even dont sync for vdsl just keep blinking tp link suport said it wont work under vdsl only on adsl line...  plz help me to insall the 9980 firmware i cant find any good totuiral

i got the 8980

tzrmes wrote:

pppp i just got it by mail and it even dont sync for vdsl just keep blinking tp link suport said it wont work under vdsl only on adsl line...  plz help me to insall the 9980 firmware i cant find any good totuiral

1st at all. You need a serial console. I use an usb to TTL serial for this purpose.
Read this for useful info: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/td-w8970

Download the last TD-W9980 firmware ( http://www.tplink.com/resources/softwar … 140819.rar )

Strip the U-BOOT from the image file.
dd is a linux command. Original.bin is the renamed original firmware from tplink. 9980.bin is the striped file ( without U-boot ).

dd if=original.bin of=9980.bin skip=257 bs=512

You need a tftp server ( tftp32 works well for this ).

Flash the device ( all operations in U-Boot serial console )

tftpboot 0x80800000 9980.bin

sf erase 0x20000 0x7a0000

sf write 0x80800000 0x20000 0x7a0000

Read my tutorial ( in Portuguese ) translated using google: https://translate.google.com/translate? … mp;act=url  post 6280.

(Last edited by zhadoom on 12 Sep 2014, 20:44)

first of all thank you very much ..
to conncet the serial do i need to open the device?

tzrmes wrote:

can you please confirm its the same order and commamds as this movie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrArf9iTMv4

The commands aren't the same. The router in Youtube video is based on Atheros. The 9980 is based on Lantiq.

The correct commands are in my previous post.

i understand that the only way to complete this is to attach a cable to serial contacts insdie the routher
?

ho again do i have to use ttl converter or can i use serial? rs232

(Last edited by tzrmes on 30 Sep 2014, 14:16)

ttl converter.

RS232 will burn the router's internal serial port.

I am looking for a dsl router that has working dsl modem functionality with openwrt. Can you confirm working dsl/vdsl support with the TP-Link TD-W9980?

hi after doing what zhadoom tutorial step by step i get 9 #         Uncompressing ... LZMA: uncompress or overwrite error 1 - must RESET board to recover
what to do cant access the router from 192.168.1.1
all steps was sucssful
please help

ROM VER: 1.1.4
CFG 05

DDR autotuning Rev 0.3ff
DDR size from 0xa0000000 - 0xa3ffffff
DDR check ok... start booting...



U-Boot 2010.06-LANTIQ-v-2.0.40-svn7369 (Jun 16 2014 - 11:12:49)

CLOCK CPU 500M RAM 250M
DRAM:  64 MiB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   Internal phy(GE) firmware version: 0x8434
vr9 Switch8192 KiB W25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device


Type "run flash_nfs" to mount root filesystem over NFS

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
8192 KiB W25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device
8192 KiB W25Q64 at 0:3 is now current device
        Uncompressing ... LZMA: uncompress or overwrite error 1 - must RESET board to recover
VR9 #

please try to flash it again and post a complete serial log of the procedure.

your current firmware image is trimmed wrongly, damaged, or whatever, if you get that error.