Activating Afterburner (125Mbps) on the recent wl-500g units

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03-11-2004, 08:21
Antiloop

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wesleyrpg

hi, how are you?

i'm a newbie, actually this is my first post so please be nice. I bought a WL-500 the other day and had absoulutely no problems upgrading the WL-500g to afterburner mode.

The only problem is how do i know/test the mini-pci card built into my laptop, to see if it supports this 'afterburner' mode and if so how do i upgrade the mini pci card itself?

The mini-pci card is based on the Intel 2200BG chipset?

Many thanks

Adam

no need to greet eachother (see faq) we greet everytime already by being at the board ;)

anyway the intel card is not 'speedbooster' or 'afterburner' capable, and thus not supporting 125mbit mode.
03-11-2004, 08:29
Styno

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wesleyrpg

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The mini-pci card is based on the Intel 2200BG chipset?
...

Afterburner only works with certain broadcom chipsets. It aint gonna work on your Intel card.
03-11-2004, 13:06
Wesleyrpg

i done a bit more research today on the intel 2200BG chipset, and you guys are right, afterburner definately aint going to happen with this card, which brings me to a few more questions.

1. Is there any noticable difference between 54M and 125M?

2. Does anyone know where i can get a mini-pci card that supports this 'afterburner' mode, and also supports two antennas?

Thanks
08-11-2004, 17:03
Spacejam

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg

With help of Kaloz, I've discovered, that instead boardflags are stored in the nvram.
For his board boardflags == 0x0188, I've suggested him to turn magic afterburner bit with
nvram set boardflags=0x0388
nvram commit
and reload the wl.o module. And magically, wl.o has enabled afterburner on his wrt54g v2.0:

Hi Oleg, Just want to know the command to reload wl.o??
Thanks. Oh..I'm using WRT54G v2.0
08-11-2004, 18:28
Spacejam

I have try running the command below...1 and 2 work fine..
3.How to reload wl.o? Any command to reload wl.o?

1. nvram set boardflags=0x0388
2. nvram commit
3. reload wl.o ???
08-11-2004, 21:58
andrewplanet

I just tried this on my v2.0 WRT54G with Sveasoft Alchemy

I first checked my corerev

Code:

wl revinfo vendorid: 0x14e4 deviceid: 0x4320 radiorev: 0x22050000 chipnum: 0x4712 chiprev: 0x1 corerev: 0x7 boardid: 0x101 boardvendor: 0x14e4 boardrev: 0x10 driverrev: 0x33c0d00 ucoderev: 0x1180016 bus: 0x0

Looks good.

Next i set the board flags

Code:

nvram set boardflags=0x0388 nvram commit

Okay done.

Now check to see if afterburner is enabled

Code:

nvram get wl_afterburner auto

Code:

nvram get wl0_afterburner auto

I reboot the router.

Then do this.

Code:

wl gmode 54g Mode is 54g Only (2)

then

Code:

wl gmode 6 eth1: Invalid argument gmode Set the 54g Mode (LegacyB|Auto||GOnly|BDeferred|Performance|LRS|Afterburner)

okay try this

Code:

wl gmode Afterburner gmode Set the 54g Mode (LegacyB|Auto||GOnly|BDeferred|Performance|LRS|Afterburner)

Now to check if it was successful

Code:

wl gmode 54g Mode is 54g Only (2)

damn... I see the same thing as styno did here

Code:

wl cap ap sta afterburner

Any ideas what's wrong?
09-11-2004, 09:45
Oleg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spacejam

I have try running the command below...1 and 2 work fine..
3.How to reload wl.o? Any command to reload wl.o?

1. nvram set boardflags=0x0388
2. nvram commit
3. reload wl.o ???

Just reboot your router.
09-11-2004, 09:53
Oleg

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewplanet

damn... I see the same thing as styno did here

Code:

wl cap ap sta afterburner

Any ideas what's wrong?

Well, afterburner support is activated, but something is preventing is from being used, possible reasons are - none afterburner capable client associated to your AP, WPA mode activated, wds mode.
In fact afterburner is mostly marketing thing at the moment. 54Mbps is more than enough for all broadcom consumer level access points... It's unlikely, that you will get anything higher than 24 Mbps of real bandwidth.
09-11-2004, 10:24
Spacejam

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg

Just reboot your router.

Have tried reboot, rrmod wl and insmod wl... Still the same, there is no option 6.;(
10-11-2004, 13:18
Oleg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spacejam

Have tried reboot, rrmod wl and insmod wl... Still the same, there is no option 6.;(

Which problem exactly you've now?
10-11-2004, 17:58
Spacejam

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oleg

Which problem exactly you've now?

I have tried this

nvram set boardflags=0x0388
nvram commit
rmmod wl
insmod wl
wl gmode 6

Than I got this:

eth1: Invalid argument
gmode Set the 54g Mode (LegacyB|Auto||GOnly|BDeferred|Performance|LRS|Aft erburner)

I even try reboot after nvram set boardflags=0x0388 and nvram commit
still the same there is no gmode 6..
My router is ver2.0 with corerev: 0x7.
18-11-2004, 22:00
Oleg

"125Mbps" explained by HP.
http://www.hp.com/united-states/wire..._download.html
17-01-2005, 16:36
Oleg

Update: As of today (2005-01-17) Asus ships new wl500g units with Afterburner already enabled, so there is no need to change srom:

Output from new wl-500g unit:

Code:

[root@wl500g root]$ wl cap ap sta wet led wme pio 802.11d 802.11h rm cqa afterburner [root@wl500g root]$ wl revinfo vendorid: 0x14e4 deviceid: 0x4320 radiorev: 0x22050000 chipnum: 0x4306 chiprev: 0x3 corerev: 0x5 boardid: 0x120f boardvendor: 0x14e4 boardrev: 0x47 driverrev: 0x35a0700 ucoderev: 0x122000a bus: 0x1

So, to enable afterburner just issue

Code:

nvram set wl_afterburner=auto nvram set wl0_afterburner=auto nvram commit
30-01-2005, 06:16
jbkerner

Afterburner?

I have the same output as Oleg - but like others set gmode 6 doesn`t work for me. Any new ideas?

ciao,
JBK
30-01-2005, 09:08
Oleg

Don't use wl gmode - it will not work with new firmwares at all (they do not allow switching modes on the fly). Just set the nvram variables and reboot.
Connect with Afterburner (speedbooster) capable device then...
15-02-2005, 21:29
maxx

New unit without Afterburner support ?

Is it possible to enable Afterburner on this wl500g ? I have already tried to set nvram but without success.

nvram setting:
wl0_afterburner=auto
wl_afterburner=auto

Code:

[admin@(none) root]$ wl revinfo vendorid: 0x14e4 deviceid: 0x4320 radiorev: 0x22050000 chipnum: 0x4306 chiprev: 0x3 corerev: 0x5 boardid: 0x120f boardvendor: 0x14e4 boardrev: 0x47 driverrev: 0x35a0700 ucoderev: 0x122000a bus: 0x1

Code:

[admin@(none) root]$ wl cap ap sta wet led wme pio 802.11d 802.11h rm cqa

Code:

[admin@(none) root]$ wl srdump srom[000]: 0x4001 0x0000 0x120f 0x14e4 0x4320 0x8000 0x0002 0x0002 srom[008]: 0x17f0 0x1800 0x0000 0x0000 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff srom[016]: 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff srom[024]: 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff srom[032]: 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0x0011 0x2fe3 0x247a 0xffff srom[040]: 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff 0x3547 0x11b0 srom[048]: 0xfb98 0xfe4f 0xffff 0xffff 0x0035 0xffff 0xffff 0xffff srom[056]: 0x003e 0x000f 0xffff 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x1001

Thank you !
15-02-2005, 22:09
maxx

I have found the solution (hopefully). It looks like I have got an old version.
After changing srom with:

Code:

wlsrom eth2 39 20f

Afterburner seems to be enabled.

Code:

wl cap ap sta wet led wme pio 802.11d 802.11h rm cqa afterburner

BTW: is the last byte in srom a checksum ?
It also changed

Code:

from 0038 003e 000f ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000 1001 to 0038 003e 020f ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000 ee0

Is there a list of the meaning of all bytes in srom ?
13-03-2005, 21:47
zilexa

Afterburner WORKS on WL-100g

Hi there, I recently formatted my laptop, installed the WL-100G with these 3.70 Broadcom drivers (had to do this manually, Windows says there is no driver in the extracted folder containing 3.70) and hey, I HAVE AFTERBURNER!

you can check the settings of your driver in the hardwarelist, on some tab you can edit the features, and enable Afterburner.

If you have previous driver installed, windows will use that instead of 3.70!!! so thats why most users think the wl-100g doesn't have Afterburner.
24-04-2005, 08:53
fastfox

Caution!

i have an upgradeble wl500g but when doing commands my router dies

2 times

i had to recover it by putting groundcable on pin 9 or 10? dunno yet

afterwards u need a clean (zero) firmware and have to flash it with the recovery tool,afterwards u can flash the normal firmware

this is for all who stuck same as me.
24-04-2005, 09:16
Oleg

So, what you've done? It appears, that you tried doing nvram set boardflags on the wl500g, which should not be used.
04-11-2005, 17:42
cu112

It works on a very old Belkin F5D7230-4 (hw 1222df) ! (with Oleg's 1.9.2.7-6c-pre5 firmware)

wl revinfo:

Code:

vendorid: 0x14e4 deviceid: 0x4320 radiorev: 0x22050000 chipnum: 0x4306 chiprev: 0x3 corerev: 0x5 boardid: 0x7000 boardvendor: 0x1799 boardrev: 0x45 driverrev: 0x35a1700 ucoderev: 0x1220098 bus: 0x1

wl cap:

Code:

ap sta wet led wme pio 802.11d 802.11h rm cqa afterburner

b43_srom 14e44320:

Code:

Found pci device 14e44320 at /proc/bus/pci/01/01.0@0x40002000 Enabling device... Device memory mapped ok SROM CRC ok 0000 4001 0000 7000 1799 4320 8000 0002 0002 0008 17f0 1800 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff 0010 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 0018 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 0020 ffff ffff ffff ffff 0030 bdf6 6cec ffff 0028 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 3045 11b0 0030 fb98 fe4f ffff ffff 004c ffff ffff ffff 0038 003e 0249 ffff 0000 0000 0000 0000 0701

wl gmode:

Code:

gmode Set the 54g Mode (LegacyB|Auto||GOnly|BDeferred|Performance|LRS)

nvram show | grep afterburner:

Code:

wl0_afterburner=auto wl_afterburner=auto

I left gmode in 54g Auto (1) and voila, when i connect with my Belkin F5D7011 High Speed Mode pcmcia adapter, linkspeed is @ 125 mbps ! Effective throughput at short distance is 25 mbps, with peaks above 30 mbps, quite a bit better than 54g performance (which maxed out at 20 mbps)

Anyone got any ideas why i can't see the Afterburner option when i execute "wl gmode help" ? (i've tried the srom register at 39 with value 0x020f but that didn't make any difference)

Greetz
26-01-2006, 16:07
zilexa

and now with Windows

Hey Oleg, I don't have a Linuxpc, isn't this also possible to do from a WindowsXP pc?
I tried Telnet but that doesn't work.

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