Revision as of 20:28, 5 September 2019

OpenWrt Powerline Support D-Link DHP-1565

Participants	Dennis
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Description

I bought a D-Link DHP-1565 router. As with al my routers, I'd like to run OpenWrt on it. The official images however do not support the Powerline (PLC) functionality built in in this model, this is why I'm trying to reproduce the process described here.

Progress

Built image with patched kernel

I succesfully built an image that has this patch applied. Images (18.06-SNAPSHOT, r7853-f6de1fa6c6) can be downloaded here. It looks like the link on port 6 is there, this means the switch can talk to the AR7400 PLC chipset now.

Add port 6 to a VLAN

Edit /etc/config/network such that port 6 is in a VLAN you want. I chose VLAN 2, which means the WAN interface. Of course you should be aware of the security implications when your WAN interface is actually connected to the outside world.

Install open-plc-tools

Looks like we do not need to build this, since there are packages in the OpenWrt repo's. I started with installing open-plc-utils-amptool and open-plc-utils-ampboot.

Testing and flashing

The command listed in here did not seem to show that the bootloader is waiting for firmware:

# amptool -i eth0.2 -Iar
eth0.2 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Request Version Information
eth0.2 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Fetch Device Attributes
eth0.2 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Device Identity

But when we try it on br-lan, it does!

# amptool -i br-wan -Iar
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Request Version Information
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01  AR7400 BootLoader
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Fetch Device Attributes
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Device Identity

Loading the firmware looked succesful:

root@loetje:~# ampboot -i br-wan -P /plc/plc.ceb.pib -N /plc/plc.nvm
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Write /plc/plc.nvm (0) (00000040:17256)
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Start /plc/plc.nvm (0) (000000C0)
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Write /plc/plc.ceb.pib (0) (00200000:16352)
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Write /plc/plc.nvm (3) (00341194:423788)
br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Start /plc/plc.nvm (3) (00341A88)
br-wan 00:01:23:45:67:8B INT7400-MAC-5-2-5203-01-913-20110713-FINAL-B is running

Extracting PLC firmware

Download firmware from https://tsd.dlink.com.tw/
Extract the .rar, it should give you a .bin file
Install binwalk and sasquatch

apt install binwalk

git clone https://github.com/devttys0/sasquatch
cd sasquatch/
./build.sh

Run binwalk on the .bin

binwalk -e DHP1565A1_FW100B35.bin

PLC stuff can be found in _DHP1565A1_FW100B35.bin.extracted/squashfs-root/plc.

On the device, create /overlay/upper/plc/
Copy all .pib and .nvm files to /overlay/upper/plc/

Links used in getting stuff working

DHP-1565 OpenWrt: Difference between revisions