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I'have also a 2100 3B card in the notebook (Asus M3700N) and had also problems with the connection when using Shareaza 2.0
I haven't test it yet with de Asus WL-100g PCMCIA card, because my internet conection is not 54 Mbps (But 1 Mbps download and as you now the 2100 3B card is 11 Mbps) :D
Maybe a while test it this weekend if I have time
@rongongo:
I got the same problem. Plz help us hier http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=...hlight=connect
For all others who may be struggling out there.
I have had a lot of problems with my WL500G, and it came very very close to being sent back to the vendor. WAN port dying was most frequent but LAN ports died just about as frequently. I did try different setup recommendations posted in these forums that looked promising, but failed all after about 8 hours of operations.
While looking for a way to force my dsl-modem port to 10mb, I found a related post of someone complaining his modem died ever since he installed SP2, which I did too. The problem seems to be related to UPNP, I disabled it on both my machines and have been running since then, just passed the 24 hours limit and counting!
Hope this helps others
Bumper
Well,
Flashed my wl500g with 1.8.1.9. Flashing took a long time....strange and after rebooting, no connexion at all...
No led is flashing, so unable to make use recovery method (device not found...) and I d'ont get any IP.
Have tried the reset button more than 5 seconds, rebooting => no more result
Have tried the reset button while powering up,more than 5 seconds => no results....
Start to worried....
Anyone has an idea ?
Have you pushed RESTORE before powering on and released after power on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Fabrice
Well, I've tried all sort of combinaison with the restore button : before power up, while power-up, after power-up, less than 5 seconds, more than 5, etc.
I've tried setting an IP on my PC in the supposed original LAN of the wl500g (192.168.1.x), no answer from 192.168.1.1 ; and in my previously set-up LAN (192.168.0.x), no answer from 192.168.1.254 (wl500g)
Leds are :
Power up : on / not flashing
Wan : on / flashing from time to time
other : on when connected / not flashing.
Air : off
:(( think it is definitively dead....
JF
Hallo Oleg, thanks for the hint with the sequence of reset and powering up. i did follow you sequence and now the power LED is flashing which is acc. to the manual fail of firmware upgrade. Any idea how to reset?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
Many Thanks
Jolanthe
Reset or recover? To reset from blinking just power off the unit. To recover use firmware restoration tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by jolanthe
Well,
I flashed my wl500 with 9.8.1.9 and it is now really dead. Don't know why..
Have try all the RESTORE tips with no success : POWER LED never starts flashing. Have try everything like tftp at boot time, firmware restoration tool, restore button : wl500 seems totally dead.
Does anybody know if there is a hard way to restore a correct firmware, using an external hard tool and if so, what is the component to be flashed ?
Thanx a lot.
Jean-fabrice
uhm
what about this thread?
https://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=838
for another way of restoring possible refer to this thread:
https://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=587
Thanx for your help Antiloop.
I've read all the possible Chupa threads about restoration and try everything but nothing help.
About serial access to console, it would be great (just to know what's wrong in the wl) but as far as I understand, I cannot simply access console with a USB/Serial converter and a vt100 emul., can I ?
Jean-Fabrice
yes but what about this thread,, am i hearing echoes ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Fabrice
https://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=838
regarding the console stuff you should ask TechniK for help he's the 'expert' atm for me :)
yes, you're hearing well. :o sorry
What about this method for WRT54G : http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net:81/red...g_revival.html
Does something similar could exist for wl500g ?
Jean-fabrice
Looking at wl500g internal pic, I found an AMD chip named AM29LV320D.
does this chips contains flash information ?
I found spec @ http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...cs/23579c5.pdf
and saw that there is a reset pin at PIN12.
Do you think that grounding this pin can helps ? or will my wl500g explose when grounded ;)
Jean-Fabrice
i suggest you to find out what pin 15 and 16 do exactlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Fabrice
would be a worth trying and also very interresting
what about the echo, you are naming 2 different firmware versions which have failed ? if it is still the same failure please don't open a new thread for it in the future anymore
For this to work you need a working PMON which does not work to you as seems. But you could try this anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Fabrice
WL500-g FW Version 1.7.5.6-CR5 worked fine for a few months. This week the
wireless connection nearly disappeared. Can't connect anymore (and yes :rolleyes: i read the wifi web 128 for dummies...)
Think there might be a strange problem. The WL100g PCMCIA card connects fine with the other network from
my neighbours. Stumbling around with Network Stumbler gives a short (one vertical green stroke of) signal of my own
wireless network every 10 minutes. Reset to default (reset >5 seconds) doesn't help, inserting one of the backed up
settings doesn't help. Ofcourse the "Block Broadcast SSID" is set to "No" for testing.
BTW, no settings in the router had been change --> Wifi worked fine, shut down
my laptop, next morning Wifi dead... (Wired connections are working ok)
Tomorrow i'll try flashing an old FW version, then go back to 1.7.5.6-CR5
turn it off for 10 minutes and then power on :D
50/50 chance it works
Ok, will give it a try if Asus doesn't accept RMA.
According to you, is the AMD AM29LV320D the good chip to be resetted (like the Intel one in WRT) ?
Jean-Fabrice
Thanks,Quote:
Originally Posted by Antiloop
It's alive.... Wireless output from the Wl500g.
Still no connection wit the laptop, but that's another (small) problem i guess.
Must install a small fan or a heatsink on the wifi card inside the Asus someday.
Let you know.
(Antiloop --> en de groeten uit Geldrop)
Next morning..... No wireless, think i have a hardware failure.
Just to clarify - wrt54g method do not "reset" the chip, but causes CRC or invalid nvram content errors in the pmon, causing it to go to recover mode. wl500g on the other hand are always goes to recover mode if it detects that RESTORE button is pressed during the power on.
It does not matter who has produced the FLASH.
Also, Reset PIN will not clear FLASH, but reset the internal CPU. This will not help you.
Yep, that's what I saw reading the Intel flash datasheet. VoidMain is shortenning A19-A18 to produce CRC error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oleg
I will try to shorten the same on the MAD flash (even if they are not close each other).
I think MY wl500g must be different because it doesn't go to recovery mode when I pressed RESTORE button at power on
Jean-fabrice
My WL500G was also inaccessible the wireless in these few days. I didn't know why, just shut it down and turn on again.
But it rarely happened before untile these few days......
This is not the case, i'm having this problem for nearly two weeks now.Quote:
Originally Posted by win139
A few minutes ago i flashed to Firmware 1.7.5.9-CR5 without success,
(Router works fine accept the wireless) this really must be a hardware problem.
After powering down the WL-500g for 10 minutes the wireless works for
a short time, after that no wireless anymore.
I really think there is a bad connection somewhere on the internal wifi card.
Must go back to the shop and claim my warranty :mad:
ill give it a try
deactivating UPnP does help,no disconnect since yesterday,even with P2P programm and mass connection on wan line
thx
Last weekend, went back to the shop with my router. Servicedesk didn'tQuote:
Originally Posted by Rynno
ask me anything, and did not respond to my remarks but they gave me a new
WL-500g instantly. At home, tried my new router ( it's indeed a newer one,
because i wrote down the serials of my old one ... :cool: ) but same problem :eek:
While writing this message i'm happily connected to my neighbours wifi network!
(WL100g card) Laptop works, router should be working. Maybe i'm a dumbo after
all??? Strange that my backup configs which worked perfectly don't work anymore...
And no, this isn't a SP2 conflict as a haven't installed it yet.
One thing i did notice: Netstumbler does close down the Wireless Zero Configuration.
Closing down Netstumbler start the service again automatically.
Not that i'm using it, but i am trying a lot to get this thing wifiíng again.
To be continued...
:mad: Can somebody help we...who can help me to restore de NVRAM (HW version 1.0)
See also
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=5356#post5356
try to start from scratch when configuring the router
if you restore backup settings it will restore corrupted stuff too, and this will result everytime in the same failures
no posting in howto!!!
read your Private messages please, I've offered you an option there a while ago
when turning on the router, the wireless LED always doesn't light up.
But the wired connection is ok. When browsing to the router and look at the wireless part in status & log, the channel is 0 and click "refresh" again, the channel becomes 2147439232. Anyone has such experience? :confused:
no do a restore of your defaults turn your machine off for 10 minutes and start overQuote:
Originally Posted by bsd234
Sorry, I didn't know that there was a way for private messaging..Antiloop please check your inbox, thanks for your offer....Hopefully you can help me...
I always make backups with comments if there are problems,Quote:
Originally Posted by Antiloop
the backup up router config was working perfectly (This time i'm sure).
There are also wired problems now. Network shares between 3 XP machines
are not visible, or some metafoorproblem appear and no network workgroup available at all.
Summary:
Internet works always. (wired, no wireless)
XP <--> Win 98 shares works fine.
VNC (remote / client) XP<--> XP / XP <--> Win 98 always works.
XP <--> XP shares never works.
Opening the network workgroup sometimes doesn't work at all, and takes a while to display a metafoor error.
This evening i tried some setting with masterbrowsing auto/off/on, no succes.
I wanted to restore a recent backup on my laptop, i suspect that thing the most but that isn't easy without a network.
Maybe i'll kick this thread to another one, it becomes heavily offtopic
:D
Wired problems are all solved now, wireless still dead...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rynno
Reinstalled XP on my laptop, new Asus WL-100g Drivers, new Asus Wlan control
center, checked settings without success. I really suspect the WL-100g card at
this moment, although it can connect to my neighbours wifi ad-hoc network sometimes.
Or could it be i got my old WL-500g router replaced with another defective one at the shop???
Wireless working fine a for few weeks now, the only change i made
was changing the channel. Very strange, i tried this before so shoot me...
:) Yesterday my WL-500G had the same symptoms like below after playing with NVRAM. The restore utility doesn`t work but i found a great solution (Thanks JockyW:http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=1451&highlight=dead
Recovery!!:
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1. pull power cable and wait 20 seconds
2. keep button pressed and connect power cable: power led should flash
3. ping 192.168.1.1 should reply else redo steps 1 and 2
4. run Asus Firmware restoration tool, select firmware file (e.g. wg01080109_WL500g_EN.trx) and press upload.
After some seconds press the Abort button or wait until it says "Upload fails! Please check the connection"
5. from a dos box or linux console run: tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put wg01080109_WL500g_EN.trx
6. tftp returns something like: "Transfer successful: 3731456 bytes in 2 seconds, 1865728 bytes/s" if it doesn't redo steps 1-5 (sometimes I needed three or four times before it worked)
7. after ca. 80 seconds your Asus should reboot
I did this procedure with
1. wl500g-clear-nvram.trx
2. wl500g-recover.trx
Then I could flash any firmware and the device was alive again.....
ciao,
jbk
hi
wonder if any one can help. I was playing with nvram and like muppet newbi that I am did a typo and now my router doesent work.
switch it on and there is now power light, it only works as switch. tried the reset and have been looking around in this forum but still not able to get it back to life. cant seem to find anything on the net ether. in brife there is
no power light
not able to ping it on 192.168.1.1
asus firmware restoration dosent find it
but works as a switch
thanks
the recker
If it's still under warranty - replace it. It still probably could be bringed back to life, but this will void your warranty (you will need to open the box).
So, what you've changed in the nvram exactly?