[WL-500g Deluxe] European WL500g Deluxe first pics

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WL500g Deluxe

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the broadcom chip used is indeed 200Mhz

thank you!
I hope it gets here soon.

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Originally Posted by Antiloop

two words explain it all:

'Which performance?'

the darn thing is sooo slow, you can better buy a wl-hdd at this moment if you want fast hdd access

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do You mean slow compared to WL-500G or to USB 2.0 speed ?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Vins

do You mean slow compared to WL-500G or to USB 2.0 speed ?

Thanks!

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both

speed from FTP from usb2.0 harddrive: 1,3Megabyte/sec

I've got my hands on one today. 200MHz and 32MB of RAM OK.
I've measured the USB2.0 HDD throughput directly on the device and it reached about 5.5MB/s, which is much better than 0.9MB/s on the 'g' unit, but still falls short of 15MB/s with the same HDD box on a PC.
Anyway, I wasn't able to squeeze more than 1.1MB/s out of it through the stupid-ftpd and only about 950KB/s over samba, both results wired.
When wireless (.11g), samba was at about 650KB/s, but this time smbd took only about 40% of CPU (wired, it took >70% CPU).

It seems to me that the bottleneck is mostly in the ethernet driver (I'll try it more later, with disabled bridge, if that makes a difference).

I was unable to run epi_ttcp for some mysterious reason...

I've also tried attaching USB2.0 DVB receiver, but I spotted some ehci BUG(ehci_mem:129), so I'm going to investigate it more.

Is the original asus binary et.o driver the same as the netgear source one?

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Originally Posted by Nenik

It seems to me that the bottleneck is mostly in the ethernet driver (I'll try it more later, with disabled bridge, if that makes a difference).

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Yes, this makes difference. Disabling bridge (or binding to eth0 directly) improves speed for about 10%.

Just bought the deluxe version and upgraded to Oleg's wl500g-1.9.2.7-3c firmware. (Many kudo's to Oleg !!!)

For the interested:

CPU: BCM5365 rev 1 at 200 MHz
Calibrating delay loop... 199.47 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30288k/32768k available (1600k kernel code, 2480k reserved, 216k data, 68k init, 0k highmem)


PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Class 0501: PCI device 14e4:0800 (rev 1).
IRQ 3.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18000000 [0x18000fff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1fc00000 [0x1fffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1c000000 [0x1dffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1a000000 [0x1bffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
Class 0200: PCI device 14e4:4713 (rev 1).
IRQ 4.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18001000 [0x18001fff].
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
Class 1000: PCI device 14e4:4718 (rev 1).
IRQ 5.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18002000 [0x18002fff].
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
Class 0c03: PCI device 14e4:4715 (rev 1).
IRQ 6.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18003000 [0x18003fff].
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
Class 0604: PCI device 14e4:0804 (rev 1).
IRQ 2.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18004000 [0x18004fff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x8000000 [0xfffffff].
Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
Class 0b30: PCI device 14e4:0816 (rev 1).
IRQ 2.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18005000 [0x18005fff].
Bus 0, device 6, function 0:
Class 0500: PCI device 14e4:080f (rev 1).
IRQ 3.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x18006000 [0x18006fff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x0 [0x7ffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x10000000 [0x17ffffff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80000000 [0x9fffffff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
Class 0600: PCI device 14e4:5365 (rev 0).
IRQ 2.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x40001fff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x0 [0x7ffffff].
Bus 1, device 2, function 0:
Class 0c03: PCI device 1106:3038 (rev 97).
IRQ 2.
Master Capable. Latency=22.
I/O at 0x100 [0x11f].
Bus 1, device 2, function 1:
Class 0c03: PCI device 1106:3038 (rev 97).
IRQ 2.
Master Capable. Latency=22.
I/O at 0x120 [0x13f].
Bus 1, device 2, function 2:
Class 0c03: PCI device 1106:3104 (rev 99).
IRQ 2.
Master Capable. Latency=22.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40002000 [0x400020ff].
Bus 1, device 3, function 0:
Class 0280: PCI device 14e4:4320 (rev 3).
IRQ 2.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40004000 [0x40005fff].

And the picture:
http://wl500g.info/attachment.php?attachmentid=&stc=1
does this work?

But, where to buy?

While visiting CeBIT I've run into ASUS' booth and I've found this weird things (see picture):
1. Why is the CD labelled g/gx?
2. What is the WL-500g2R?

Hi

I think the G/GX just means the devices are so similar that they share some advertising/dokumentation material, no new device.
Btw, what has the gx what the g has not, other than more cpu power and 2.0 USB ?

But the other device is interresting, indeet.

Greets

Hi,

Looking at that picture it looks like there are 2 extra USB ports available and 2 serial ports as well as a number of GPIO pins.

This looks very interesting!

Well looks Like I'm getting an Asus instead of the linksys.

@linuxinside, would it be possible to post a picture of a close up of the areas with the jumpers/pin headers?

Phil.

P.s. Apologies if this is already known, just got here after reading the article at Linuxdevices.

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Originally Posted by phil_trick

Hi,

Looking at that picture it looks like there are 2 extra USB ports available and 2 serial ports as well as a number of GPIO pins.

This looks very interesting!

Well looks Like I'm getting an Asus instead of the linksys.

@linuxinside, would it be possible to post a picture of a close up of the areas with the jumpers/pin headers?

Phil.

P.s. Apologies if this is already known, just got here after reading the article at Linuxdevices.

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they are available, but have not been made available yet

please have a look in this (temporary) directory at http://www.chupa.nl/wl500gx/wl500g%20deluxe/

Howdy Antiloop.

Looks like on J5 you have 2 serial ports coming out on that header.
WARNING: they look like they at TTL levels so they can't be plugged in to a serail port on a PC directly.

There might be a system console on the first serial port which might be useful for debugging.

There is also a reset signal on that header which might be useful.
The is a 3.3v supply and ground so a level converter PCB could be made for that jumper, and the power could be drawn from the main PCB.

The second set of headers: J1 (I think, hey, I can't count either ;) ) look to be standard USB port headers. The only thing is that they do not have a +5v supply for the usb connectors. For that we might be able to draw the voltage from the +5v supply on the built in USB ports.

Now all I need is for some place in Ireland to start selling one of these :)

Getting any product info off the Broadcom website for the processor is difficult as well.

Phil

The GX has (a) 2 USB 2.0 ports vs. 1 USB 1.1 port on the -G version, big improvement if you're planning on using USB-attached hard drives and (b) has the "afterburner" wireless enhancement so potentially you can get 100+ Mb/s throughput if your client adapters support it

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Originally Posted by rkhalloran

The GX has (a) 2 USB 2.0 ports vs. 1 USB 1.1 port on the -G version, big improvement if you're planning on using USB-attached hard drives and (b) has the "afterburner" wireless enhancement so potentially you can get 100+ Mb/s throughput if your client adapters support it

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Yeah well, "potentially" is even a big word when we're talking about wireless performance....