The WGR826V router was made in 2005 by NETGEAR in partnership with Intoto. It was licensed to AT&T for their CallVantage Service. In other words, the 2 FXS ports can only be used with that service. 
The router has been discontinued by NETGEAR and it can now be purchased at a cheaper price in some discount stores. In my case, I purchased one from Big Lots at $29.99. Actually, I purchased 2 of them; I donated one of them to the OpenWRT organization, in hopes of helping them create a suitable image for the router. Sadly, the developer who received the router has not done much with it. So, I decided to do it on my own.
Information about the router:
The FCC ID number is: PY3WGR826V. With this piece of information, I was able to determine many things, such as components of the board:
• CPU: Intel IXP-425 @ 266MHz
• RAM: 32M-Byte supporting up to 533MHz CPU
• Flash: Intel TE28F128 16M-Byte
• Wi-Fi: 11g Ralink RT2500 mini PCI card
• SLIC: Silicon Labs Si3210
• Switch: Kendin KS8995X 5-Port switch
• RS-232 Console
• 7 green/amber LEDs and 2 green LEDs
• One Omni-directional Fixed Antenna
• 12Vdc 1.25A slim universal switching power adapter
Ok, it has 32MB of RAM and 16MB of flash. The CPU is an IXP425 and it has a serial console. This is more than enough for what I want to do with it. I should be able to install a custom image of the firmware with Asterisk and QoS support in order to make use of the FXS ports.
What I have done so far:
The serial port was one of the things that I needed to get to work first. So, I figured out the pin-out of the 5 pins mini-din port in the back of the router. I found that the port has 3.3V and GND, so you can power up the voltage level inverter to connect to a computer.
So, here is the pin-out:
The router has been discontinued by NETGEAR and it can now be purchased at a cheaper price in some discount stores. In my case, I purchased one from Big Lots at $29.99. Actually, I purchased 2 of them; I donated one of them to the OpenWRT organization, in hopes of helping them create a suitable image for the router. Sadly, the developer who received the router has not done much with it. So, I decided to do it on my own.
Information about the router:
The FCC ID number is: PY3WGR826V. With this piece of information, I was able to determine many things, such as components of the board:
• CPU: Intel IXP-425 @ 266MHz
• RAM: 32M-Byte supporting up to 533MHz CPU
• Flash: Intel TE28F128 16M-Byte
• Wi-Fi: 11g Ralink RT2500 mini PCI card
• SLIC: Silicon Labs Si3210
• Switch: Kendin KS8995X 5-Port switch
• RS-232 Console
• 7 green/amber LEDs and 2 green LEDs
• One Omni-directional Fixed Antenna
• 12Vdc 1.25A slim universal switching power adapter
Ok, it has 32MB of RAM and 16MB of flash. The CPU is an IXP425 and it has a serial console. This is more than enough for what I want to do with it. I should be able to install a custom image of the firmware with Asterisk and QoS support in order to make use of the FXS ports.
What I have done so far:
The serial port was one of the things that I needed to get to work first. So, I figured out the pin-out of the 5 pins mini-din port in the back of the router. I found that the port has 3.3V and GND, so you can power up the voltage level inverter to connect to a computer.
So, here is the pin-out:
4 comments:
TX, RX, GND is clear
for TX,RX should go pins 2,3 on DB9
console
for GND- pin5
what about VCC - is it pin 1 of console port?
1 is Data Carrier Detect
is it USB to din?
is it PS2 connector?
need a working cable for this connector
to get to console :-)
Here is the result
Console is not RS232 port
It is TTL port
One need to have RS232 to TTL module with MAXIM 2232 or similar chip
Usually costs around $7
one side is RS232 - other is
VCC, Gnd, Tx, Rx (TTL signals)
serial level converters
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=449
or
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8780
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