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

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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.

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