Can someone tell me what minipci adapter must buy to operate in 802.11n?
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Can someone tell me what minipci adapter must buy to operate in 802.11n?
10x
That works with no problem on kamikaze: http://74.125.43.101/translate_c?hl=...A-84o9bKUnCn0A
And cost about 20$.
Just in case the link below from Lesiuk gets broken, it makes reference to "Network card miniPCI WLAN TP-Link TL-WN861N"
Hello,
can you post details? what kamikaze build? from trunk? what rev? also what is the max throughput? did you get N speeds? or is caped at 2.7MBps with cpu in full load?
maybe you can upload your test .bin so we can test. I have the exact Tplink card and WL500GP ver.1
Thanks!
BR,
Invictus
Yes, the above link is broken. Thank you to clearing what it point to.
But is it tested by someonw this TP-Link PCI adapter is working on Asus WL500gP
Just plug and Play?
brgds
A
I'm interested too. Has anyone tested?
Has up to now somebody successfully installed a TL-WN861N to a WL500gp?Quote:
Originally Posted by antair
As the WL500gp only lacks N-speed this would be a cheap upgrade path.
It is look to be a great idea, but it is not.Quote:
Originally Posted by preacher@wl500g
I got TL-WN861N on my WL-500gP combined with latest Kamikadze trunk. It was intresting experience, but after all now I am usng stock wifi card and Oleg fw back again.
You need to anwser to yourself: You want to experiment with n-draft and wl-500gp, or you want fast, stable wireless network maintained via WL500gp router.
If you like experimenting with your wifi network, you should try to install TL-WN861N card, but - i warn you - it take some time before you get your wifi working (i mean efficiently).
I gave up because I need a quite sable wifi connection, wich OpenWRT latest trunk can't provide (very buggy ath9k driver).
I never got pure n-draft connection. It's showed up in connection manager as "n" mode network, but forget about 300mbps speed.
Probably you never get full n-draft speed because of WL500gp's CPU wich can not provide enough power to handle draft.
Well, the task would be to find a module with good drivers for 2.4.x kernel.
I think after loading the appropriate driver it shall work, because authentication and so on are handled by another protocol layer.
The CPU can handle it for sure, because the WL500W has the same CPU but N WiFi card.
Which speeds did you reach? I guess the problem on one hand is, that the WL500Gp has only one antenna and possibly you had a notebook with centrino WiFi card? In 2,4GHz band by default the driver has only 20MHz bandwidth enabled, you have to set to "auto" in the driver settings to get more than 150MBit.
I know that cpu can handle it but in wl500W using Broadcom draft wifi card. Maybe this is the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by preacher@wl500g
Ofcourse I mounted second antenna to TL-WN861N, and my laptop wifi card is Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN
I tried diferent driver settings with same results - in network manager my Wifi network showed up as "n", but speeds was "g" like.
Dunno if you can set regulatory modes for WiFi...Quote:
Originally Posted by kauczu
but I believe intel uses 802.11h, which will increase N speeds:)
Hello, my friends.
I have a broken wl-500w, but the minipci wireless card is good (wl-121w).
Is it possible to use it on a wl-500GP, enabling it to work with 802.11n?
If so, is it plug and play? (with dd-wrt firm)
Or, since the routers share the same components, except for the wireless cards; can i flash the wl-500w firmware to the wl-500gp to enable the wl-121w card?
you can flash the wl-500w firmware to a wl-500gp(v1) with the firmware restoration tool quite easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by adelino
so yes, it's pretty much plug and play after you flashed the firmware and attached all the antennas.
I'm not sure if you are going for external antennas, but you might buy some cheap notebook ones from ebay or something.
They work quite good:)
Indeed, my friend. It works. Plug and play, with dd wrt.
Since i have the wl500w case, with the three antenas, i put the wl-500gp board on the wl500w case.
thanks for your answer
:D:D
As the RTN (Kernel 2.6) firmware was released as BETA and is working really good on the WL500gP I'm asking myself if this will open new opportunities to upgrade the WL500gP to N-Speed, e.g with the TL-WN861N still available?
Is this possible on this firmware with just adding the driver to the flashfs and loading it?
Hy ,
I want to know if is possible to replace my default wireless card (G) from WL500GP with this wireless card TP-LINK TL-WN861N !!
right now i use this firmware : WL500gp-1.9.2.7-rtn-r4667.trx
someone ??
Don't think you can do it with this card.Quote:
Originally Posted by xplay
It doesn't provide AP mode from what I've read.
You need to look into BCM43222 or WL500W wireless card.
There is a thread in Russian only (unfortunately) about this upgrade I'd suggest simply instead of upgrading Wireless card buying new router completely instead, because there are many problems with recent -rtn firmware on ASUS wl-500gP v1.
1) memory allocation when there is large network activity going on - router might reboot itself or just hang or if you're using pptp/l2tp connection mode - disconnect (link and another link happens when you're actively using WAN resourcers link2)
2) dnsmasq unaligned instruction - sometime it just happens randomly and dnsmasq killed (link)
3) I've been using BCM43222 wireless card with wl500gP v1 - on recent firmware you can experience slowdown happening over wireless connection (link)
I'm using myself custom build of r3323 it doesn't have reboots issue and dnsmasq issue, but it has some bugs too, related to the wireless driver / memory allocation:
I never experienced such issues on 2.4.20 kernel (original Oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-10), so it's most likely issues with current kernel used in rtn line.Code:Mem-info:
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
Active:2244 inactive:479 dirty:8 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:235 slab:3139 mapped:347 pagetables:84 bounce:0
Normal free:940kB min:2500kB low:3124kB high:3748kB active:8976kB inactive:1916kB present:32512kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0
Normal: 1*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 940kB
Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
Free swap = 0kB
Total swap = 0kB
Free swap: 0kB
8192 pages of RAM
0 pages of HIGHMEM
927 reserved pages
794 pages shared
0 pages swap cached
swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
Call Trace:
[<c01376c0>] init_module+0x2e6c0/0x30148 [et]
[<c037fd78>] wlc_send_q+0x180/0x330 [wl]
[<c041dc14>] wlc_hdr_proc+0x78/0x27e8 [wl]
[<c0422100>] wlc_sendpkt+0x148/0x52c [wl]
[<c04224c8>] wlc_sendpkt+0x510/0x52c [wl]
[<c04226d8>] wlc_recvdata_sendup+0x1f4/0x5e0 [wl]
[<c0422a10>] wlc_recvdata_sendup+0x52c/0x5e0 [wl]
[<80004da0>] memcpy+0x0/0x4
[<c0423284>] wlc_recvdata_ordered+0x7c0/0xb6c [wl]
[<c0429904>] wlc_ampdu_recvdata+0x40c/0x64c [wl]
[<c0421d10>] wlc_prep_sdu+0x1468/0x1710 [wl]
[<c0425290>] wlc_recvdata+0xbc0/0xd64 [wl]
[<c0425790>] wlc_recv+0x208/0x2ba8 [wl]
[<c0425588>] wlc_recv+0x0/0x2ba8 [wl]
[<c0429ee4>] wlc_dpc+0x388/0x94c [wl]
[<c03b12e0>] wlc_bmac_retrylimit_upd+0x108/0x1d8 [wl]
[<c041cfdc>] wl_intrson+0x20c/0x37c [wl]
[<c0183e38>] usb_hcd_irq+0x5c/0x18c [usbcore]
[<80001524>] ret_from_irq+0x0/0x4
[<80332c84>] start_kernel+0x378/0x4d8
[<8033256c>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x324
[<8034ce50>] _einittext+0x0/0x0
Mem-info:
Normal per-cpu:
CPU 0: Hot: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0
Active:2244 inactive:479 dirty:8 writeback:0 unstable:0
free:235 slab:3139 mapped:347 pagetables:84 bounce:0
Normal free:940kB min:2500kB low:3124kB high:3748kB active:8976kB inactive:1916kB present:32512kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
lowmem_reserve[]: 0
Normal: 1*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 940kB
Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
Free swap = 0kB
Total swap = 0kB
Free swap: 0kB
8192 pages of RAM
0 pages of HIGHMEM
927 reserved pages
794 pages shared
0 pages swap cached
And if you still want to buy a replacement card I'd suggest buy some Atheros one which is supported in 2.4.20 kernel (not sure need to check) or card from WL500W (it's very hard to find tho).
staticroute thx for your suggestion i will apreciate your advice and answer for my question !
the true is yestarday i upgrade my WL-500gP v1 firmware to WL500gp-1.9.2.7-rtn-r4667.trx ,
untill now i use oleg firmware 1.9.2.7-10 for over 3 years .. absolute no problem with them!
maybe i should stay on them and not upgrade to rtn-r4667 :rolleyes:
WL-500gP v1 is a very good router, but you right i have to look further to buy a new router maybe RT-N56U or RT-N65U :eek:
I strongly suggest staying on Oleg's firmware because it's the most stable there available for this router.Quote:
Originally Posted by xplay
I'd use it myself but unfortunately I have to stick around to rtn-r3323 due upgrade 802.11n module.
Take a look at RT-N66U as well, it might be good, not sure. Personally I'm wanting Ubiquiti RSPro but it's not available anymore :(
Hi staticroute,Quote:
Originally Posted by staticroute
can I assume your -N experience with WL500GP v1 is successful ?
I have both TP-Link WN861N and BCM43222 cards. Which one to try out with ?
1. If Yes, am I right, in assuming that the correct Oleg's FW for the purpose is 1.9.2.7-9 ?
2. If No, could you point me to the right FW for stable -N performance on the router ?
3. Is the USB HDD connection ability and DL use is kept in this FW ?
4. Does the 3G USB stick ability been kept too ?
TNX for your time, indeed !
There is no need to go back to old old old old old oleg Fimware.
The Enthusiast-Fimware features both kernels 2.4 and 2.6. Just use WL500gp-1.9.2.7-d-r2624 (d-Branch is kernel 2.4) if you have issues with the rtn-Branch (kernel 2.6).
lly and theMiron did a great job enhancing the last oleg. They fixed many security issues and improved stability.