Comcast Voice – Success! July 15, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Well, it only took a week and a half. Heh. But they finally did it.
My Comcast Voice line is now setup to work with incoming calls. Tested Caller ID w/ call waiting, too – seems to work fine. Interestingly, it seems that the Comcast Arris VoIP/Cable modem they gave me does a lot of stuff on the local side! This includes:
- Generate dialtone
- Generate ringing
- Generate call waiting tones
- Generate Caller ID data for phones
Some interesting info about the modem, from it’s diagnostics page (http://192.168.100.1):
CM Hardware Information
System: ARRIS DOCSIS 1.1 / PacketCable 1.0 Touchstone Telephony Modem HW_REV: 02
VENDOR: Arris Interactive, L.L.C.
BOOTR: 5.01
SW_REV: 5.0.50G
MODEL: TM502G
Product Type: 00000006 010a3aa2
Product Release: 00000002
Flash Part: AM29LV320MB
Functional Revision: 18
Download Revision: 2
Firmware Revision: 5.0.50G
Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Battery Charger FW Rev: 02.10
Based on the above, it looks like the chipset in this device is based on AMD’s Am29LV 3.0 volt flash memory series. While they don’t list the exact model shown above, I suspect this modem contains a modified version of the Am29LV320D. Seems like it would be an easy thing to pop this chip out and reprogram it with something like BDI2000. Oh well, not for me, for now!
Welp, good to go finally. Now I’ll have to screw with it soon to see what things can be done to it 
Since I have no intention of actually using it, mind you. It was free afterall.
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