ZyXEL NBG2105

bgn (N150)
Wireless Mini Travel Router
Wikipedia	ZyXEL
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Incompatible
OpenWrt	Incompatible
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	ZyXEL NBG2105
FCC ID	I88NBG2105
Type	travel router
CPU1	Realtek RTL8196EU
CPU1 Type	Lexra RLX4181
CPU1 Speed	400 MHz
Flash1 Chip	Macronix MX25L3206EM2I-12G
Flash1 Size	4 MiB4,194,304 B <br />32,768 Kib <br />4,096 KiB <br />32 Mib <br />0.00391 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	32 MiB33,554,432 B <br />262,144 Kib <br />32,768 KiB <br />256 Mib <br />0.0313 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	EtronTech EM63A165TS-6G
ETH chip1	Realtek RTL8196EU
Ethernet Port Count	1-100MbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u
802dot11 OUI: B0:B2:DC (1 E, 2 W) Ethernet OUI: B0:B2:DC (1 E, 2 W)
Stock bootloader	rtkload
Stock FW OS	Linux 2.6.30.9 Realtek SDK v3.2.2.1-r12870
Expansion IF types	none specified
Power	5 VDC, 1 A
Connector type	USB Female Micro-B
Serial Port (UART)	yes, internal, 4-pin header, unpopulated, 3.3V TTL, J11, (38400 8N1)
Other
Default SSID: ZyXELXXXX
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Netronix
Retail
FCC approval date	07 December 2012
UPC	760559120344 (UPC DB, On eBay)
ASIN	B00BTKZA1Y
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	Realtek RTL8188ER
Wireless interface OUI	B0:B2:DC
Antenna Connector Type	none
MIMO status	1x1:1
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n	up to 150 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz

For a list of all currently documented Realtek chipsets with specifications, see Realtek.

For a list of all currently documented ZyXEL device with specifications, see ZyXEL.

• 150 Mbps - 1SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.) = N150 class

Overview

"270-NB0-FW151B004C0 REV.C" is silkscreened on one NBG2105's board.

It's presumably a Netronix P/N, likely an Intelligent Technology FW151B

The default SSID format for these devices would appear to be ZyXEL followed by the last two octets of the BSSID (w/ lower case letters).

Additional info

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.30.9 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.6-1.3.6) #495 Mon Dec 17 08:54:03 CST 2012
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type             : RTL819xD
processor               : 0
cpu model               : 52481
BogoMIPS                : 398.95
tlb_entries             : 32
mips16 implemented      : yes
# cat /etc/version
RTL8196EU v1.0 --  Mon Dec 17 08:53:48 CST 2012
The SDK version is: Realtek SDK v3.2.2.1-r12870
Ethernet driver version is: 12799-12484
Wireless driver version is: 12853-12853
Fastpath source version is: 12490-12484
Feature support version is: 12490-12484

JTAG-Serial Info

Serial

Serial Pinouts

               J11
(GND) (RxD) (TxD) [3.3]

Boot log

Booting...

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@
@ chip__no chip__id mfr___id dev___id cap___id size_sft dev_size chipSize
@ 0000000h 0c22016h 00000c2h 0000020h 0000016h 0000000h 0000016h 0400000h
@ blk_size blk__cnt sec_size sec__cnt pageSize page_cnt chip_clk chipName
@ 0010000h 0000040h 0001000h 0000400h 0000100h 0000010h 0000027h MX25L3205D
@
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

---RealTek(RTL8196E)at 2012.10.09-19:03+0800 v0.5 [16bit](400MHz)
no sys signature at 00010000!
no sys signature at 00030000!
no rootfs signature at 000E0000!
no rootfs signature at 00100000!
Jump to image start=0x80500000...
decompressing kernel:
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
done decompressing kernel.
start address: 0x80003600
RTL8188ER driver version 1.5 (2012-05-04)



Probing RTL8186 10/100 NIC-kenel stack size order[3]...
chip name: 8196C, chip revid: 0
NOT YET
eth0 added. vid=9 Member port 0x1...
eth1 added. vid=8 Member port 0x10...
eth2 added. vid=9 Member port 0x2...
eth3 added. vid=9 Member port 0x4...
eth4 added. vid=9 Member port 0x8...
eth5 added. vid=9 Member port 0x0...
[peth0] added, mapping to [eth1]...
Realtek FastPath:v1.03
init started: BusyBox v1.13.4 (2012-10-29 15:35:46 CST)
OTG: wall mount detect
...............................Init Start...
Init bridge interface...
Init Wlan application...

WiFi Simple Config v2.11-wps2.0 (2012.09.04-08:24+0000).

Register to wlan0
iwcontrol RegisterPID to (wlan0)
Init WAN Interface...
boa: server version Boa/0.94.14rc21
boa: server built Dec 17 2012 at 08:53:46.
boa: starting server pid=268, port 80
# Original mode: 2
Notice: caching turned off