[Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

[Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem
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alexiares21 @ 29th May 09:03PM:
[Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

[Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

Hey guys, I need help complying firmware so I can update my Westell A90-750115-07 router/modem. Unfortunately, I'm not to familiar with linux and tried using cygwin to emulate linux under windows but I kept getting too many errors when I tried to create the update. If anyone can compile the firmware and post it would be greatly appreciated.

General link to Westell

»www.westell.com/index.php?option···=support

Files need in link to create update:

Read Me

Firmware1.0.0.2

Linux Tools (Needs to be complied with the firmware)
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nwrickert @ 31st May 11:24AM:
Re: [Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

There seems to be something missing in their instructions.

When I follow their instructions, the build fails.
/bin/sh: /opt/westell_msw2/bin/mips-linux-gcc: cannot execute binary file

It is possible that this depends on a particular linux kernel, since the error messages mention 2.6.8.1 . I'm currently running 2.6.25.20

Incidently, the file 'mips-linux-gcc' in their provided tools is a symlink to 'mips-linux-uclibc-gcc'.
so something is amiss there, perhaps an incompatibility between their tools and my system.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 327w modem/router; openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.10

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nwrickert @ 31st May 11:31AM:
Re: [Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

On second thoughts, it is possible that this only builds under linux running on MIPS architecture.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 327w modem/router; openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.10
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alexiares21 @ 31st May 10:27PM:
Re: [Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

Thanks for trying, I actually went was able to extract the both images like it states in the readme with cygwin but when I tried to compile I got line code errors.
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nwrickert @ 31st May 11:21PM:
Re: [Help] Building firmware for Verizon Westell 7500 modem

Extracting was not a problem, but compiling was.

My current guess is that they built this on a MIPS system, and used gnu software. So they are technically living up to GPL requirements by releasing their source, but they aren't going out of there way to make it easy.
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AT&T dsl; Westell 327w modem/router; openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.10
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