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

[andrewplanet]

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

I first checked my corerev

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

nvram set boardflags=0x0388
nvram commit

Okay done.

Now check to see if afterburner is enabled

nvram get wl_afterburner
auto

nvram get wl0_afterburner
auto

I reboot the router.

Then do this.

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

then

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

okay try this

wl gmode Afterburner

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

Now to check if it was successful

wl gmode

54g Mode is 54g Only (2)

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

wl cap
ap sta afterburner

Any ideas what's wrong?

[Oleg]

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.

[Oleg]

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

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.

[Spacejam]

Just reboot your router.

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

[Oleg]

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

Which problem exactly you've now?

[Spacejam]

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.

[Oleg]

"125Mbps" explained by HP.
http://www.hp.com/united-states/wire..._download.html

[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:

[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

nvram set wl_afterburner=auto
nvram set wl0_afterburner=auto
nvram commit

[jbkerner]

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

ciao,
JBK

[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...

[maxx]

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

[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

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

[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 !

[maxx]

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

wlsrom eth2 39 20f

Afterburner seems to be enabled.

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

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 ?

[zilexa]

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.

[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.

[Oleg]

So, what you've done? It appears, that you tried doing nvram set boardflags on the wl500g, which should not be used.