I have had a look at the source code provided by Edimax to work out what the device is, and had a poke around Inside The Case. The findings so far are: Hardware Item | Description
| Notes / Source of information
| System Board
| Prolific Pl-1029
| 29/src/ipcam/web talk about Pl-1029, and the top level instructions say you should install the toolchain in /opt/prolific. This is confirmed by more recent look Inside The Case.
| CPU | ARM9 | Both from Prolific web site and the provided toolchain is for an ARM processor, using uClibc.
| USB Support
| No connector installed, but the Prolific web site suggests that the hardware is present.
| Need to gain telnet access to device to check - not done yet. There is no sign of a USB connector on the main circuit board, which is a shame. | Wireless LAN Adapter
| Ralinktek RT61
| Edimax supplied source code for RT61.o/RT61.ko module
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System Software Item | Description | Notes / Source of Information
| Kernel | Linux 2.4.19
| Edimax supplied source code
| System Binaries
| Busybox 1.01
| Busybox is also the init process, called as /linuxrc
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The dmesg output from the device has been de-coded and posted here. The output is re-produced on this site as dmesg Output. Firmware File Structure
The firmware file is arranged in 4 sections, an 8 byte identifier, 768k of kernel space, 3200k of cramfs image and a single byte checksum.
Bytes | Description | Notes / Source of Information
| 1-8
| Character Description
| "IC3010 " or "IC3010WG" - from ./29/img/mkImage.sh in source code provided by Edimax.
| 9- 768k or 9- 767k
| Kernel image
| mkImage.sh suggests this goes to 768k (=786432), but my testing suggests it ends at byte number 767k (=786370)
| 768k- (786432-) or 767k- (786370-)
| Cramfs root filesystem (3580k when mounted)
| Again mkImage.sh suggests 768k, but my testing suggests it starts at byte number 767k. This looks like the root filesystem for the device.
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CanOfWorms has made really good progress and decoded the firmware as described here. |