Topic 'Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection' in forum 'Linksys' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8788963 en Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:06 EDT Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:06 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8977424 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8977424 Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:44:58 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8975120 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8975120 Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:18:06 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8974701 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8974701 Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:24:33 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8966395
If you replace of the stock antennas with a more powerful external antenna you can force its use by setting the txant and rxant commands.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8966395 Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:06:23 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8965192 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8965192 Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:17:09 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957480 said by chipd:
What does the 10Mbps/half duplex do?

It slows the network card down to 10Mbps and switch to half duplex (ie one way communication at a time).

Not sure if it's 100% required, but I always like to do it before flashing firmware.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957480 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:28:22 EDT Re: Latest Sveasoft firmware http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8957331 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8957331 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:05:18 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957304 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957304 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:00:08 EDT Re: Latest Sveasoft firmware http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8957274 said by Sveasoft6:
Some of the new feature screenshots...

Is this an EU or US firmware? I need to run on Ch13, as anything lower conflicts with my Video Senders.

If it's not an EU, would it be possible for an EU version on the next release?

TIA

Alan]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8957274 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:56:53 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957223
Pluged into port 1 of router; unplugged Internet (don't know if it matters, I just did it).
Set machine to ip 192.168.1.2, 10Mbps/half duplex
Got the mac address of my router and did:
arp -a 192.168.1.1 00-00-00-00-00-00
(replacing the 00's with the mac address of the router (LAN MAC, not WAN MAC))
tftp -i 192.168.1.1 PUT C:\firmware.bin code.bin
(where C:\firmware.bin is the filename of the firmware file on your HDD)

HTH

Alan]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957223 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:50:58 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957057
I just came across your post "I tried the new firmware (2.00.8) on my v1.1 box, and it killed it; luckily I was able to reload with 1.42.3, after setting my connection 10/half and forcing an IP address.". The same thing just happened to me on my v1.0 box. How did you reload the 1.42.3 firmware? TFTP? I can ping 192.168.1.1, but I am unable to make a connection.. I'm stumped. Any help you can give me would be appreciated!! Thanks! ChipD]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8957057 Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:29:06 EDT Re: Latest Sveasoft firmware http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8915958

WLAN		 

Client/AP		 

Power/Ant		 

Bandwidth		 

Time/SSH		 

Command		 
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8915958 Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:17:15 EDT Re: Latest Sveasoft firmware http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8915682 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8915682 Mon, 29 Dec 2003 05:09:24 EDT Latest Sveasoft firmware http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8915508 www.sveasoft.com/forum6.html.

Now includes client mode, services control in web interface, and bandwidth management.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Latest-Sveasoft-firmware-8915508 Mon, 29 Dec 2003 03:23:41 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8841391
If the variable boot_wait is set to "on" the device will wait 5 seconds on boot for a new flash image to be uploaded via tftp (using a special tftp client »ftp://ftp.sveasoft.com/pub/linksys-tftp.tar.bz2 Linux only).

If boot_wait is not set to on, the device will not wait to boot and there is no window to re-flash it. In the unfortunate case that you have flashed a bad image, you may have "bricked" your box.

Setting boot_wait -

1. "/usr/sbin/nvram set boot_wait=on"

2. "/usr/sbin/nvram commit"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8841391 Sat, 20 Dec 2003 03:43:46 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835603
Cheers]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835603 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:49:11 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835376 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835376 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:22:28 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835336
If you are using a firmware version that uses a lot of RAM and then try to upgrade using the web interface this can happen. The web upgrade needs an amount of RAM free equal to the firmware size (usually ~3 MB).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835336 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:16:35 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835272 said by Sveasoft6:

Since it is binary compatible with the V1.0 and V1.1 chips there shouldn't be any incompatibilities.


I tried the new firmware (2.00.8) on my v1.1 box, and it killed it; luckily I was able to reload with 1.42.3, after setting my connection 10/half and forcing an IP address.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8835272 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:07:59 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8834744
I've only been surfing these boards for 2 days so I'll keep reading and learning.

Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8834744 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:58:20 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8834420
Normally the WRT54G will choose an antenna based on the one that last received and active packet. This is normally what you want. If you replace one of the antennas with an external (i.e. more powerful) one, you can force the box to always use the better antenna.

The power hack works from the web in the new firmware and survives a reboot. Nothing fancy, but useful.

Most of the features at this point are for technical folks - sshd, telnetd, a command processor, new internal Linux commands. Several of us are currently adding things like bandwidth limits, hidden node management (for wide area radio nets), VPN's, tunneling, etc.

At this point it is an experimental build. If all you need is to access your WRT54G around your house this firmware is probably not for you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8834420 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:26:17 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8834063 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8834063 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:48:17 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRAD http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8831637
Since it is binary compatible with the V1.0 and V1.1 chips there shouldn't be any incompatibilities.

WRT54G V1.0 -
BCM4702 MIPS CPU
BCM4306 802.11a/b/g MAC processor
BCM2050 802.11b/g radio transceiver

- MAC processor and radio unit on separate mini-PCI card
- 125 MHz MIPS processor

WRT54G V1.1
BCM4702
BCM4306
BCM2050

- all chips on main board
- 125 MHz MIPS processor

WRT54G V2.0 (note: speculation)
BCM4712

- integrates BCM4702, BCM4306, BCM2050 into one chip
- 200 MHz MIPS processor
- integrated USB
- integrated Ethernet]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRAD-8831637 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:57:32 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRADED http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRADED-8827686
said by bigmtn:
Please note that 2.00.8 is only for WRT54G v.2. It will not work with a WRT54G v.1 or v1.1.
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRADED-8827686 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:51:46 EDT Re: New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRADED http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRADED-8824813 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRADED-8824813 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:55:21 EDT New Firmware - Built in TX mW selection UPGRADED http://www.dslreports.com/forum/New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRADED-8823433
»www.sveasoft.com/postt25.html]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/New-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-UPGRADED-8823433 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:24:34 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8811911 www.seattlewireless.net/index.cg···ysWrt54g -- search on WDS. It's towards the bottom of the page.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8811911 Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:33:01 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8811275 I need to buy the Buffalo router to make it work with the repeater. :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8811275 Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:39:20 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8805415 changed. The router gets the time from the dhcp server and if it was correct in previous versions it should work on 2.008.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8805415 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:07:07 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8805276 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8805276 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:52:41 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8801105 --
Join BroadbandReports.com's SETI@Home Team
Put your unused clock cycles to work!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8801105 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:11:46 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8800435
I will take a look and see about activating it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8800435 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:46:49 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8800369 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8800369 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:14:05 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8800294
Where did you see that the router time was off? What client did you try with WPA? Any help is appreciated.

Please email me at support@sveasoft.com.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8800294 Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:49:29 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8797790 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8797790 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:32:57 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8796289
Went back to WiFi-box 1.42.3 hacked version and everything is fine!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8796289 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:20:07 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8795862 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8795862 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:41:16 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8795719
Depends on what kind of bridging you mean.

The WRT54G has a full WDS implementation that can chain multiple APs together in up to a theoretical 6 hop chain. Essentially you can run mulitple AP's with tens of clients each and they will automatically forward all of the packets to the central AP.

There is another bridging mode called WET - wireless Ethernet T..something :-) - in the source that apparently requires client mode (the source forces client mode if you choose it - see src/router/wfconf for details). I assume it is some kind of hardware Ethernet bridging over wireless but haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

-- James]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8795719 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:26:56 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8794663 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8794663 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:29:03 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8793020
Thanks for trying out our firmware. We're aware of the ping and traceroute bug and are working to fix it.

A new version with an experimental client mode feature will be available at »www.sveasoft.com (look under Q&A).

Any feedback to improve this firmware release is greatly appreciated. Please email support@sveasoft.com.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8793020 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:38:21 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8792107 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8792107 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:44:52 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8792101 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8792101 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:43:55 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8790722 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8790722 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:42:56 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8790571 Thanks to all..;-)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8790571 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 06:48:10 EDT Re: New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8790354 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8790354 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:29:00 EDT New WRT54G Firmware - Built in TX mW selection! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8788963
Hi all,

I just posted firmware version 1.42.3.2sv to »ftp://ftp.sveasoft.com/pub/Firmware1.42.3.2sv.bin.

Power adjust, xmit antenna, and recv antenna were added to the web interface under Wireless->Advanced Wireless Settings.

I have tested this firmware but as always USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

From the Changelog -

Sveasoft Firmware Version 1.42.3.2sv

Changes
-------

Add power adj, ant rx, ant tx to WWW interface

-- under Wireless-> Advanced Wireless Settings

Added sshd (dropbear)

Added telnetd (busybox 0.60.x)

Added hexdump, cmp, wget to busybox

Added boot_wait, telnetd to web interface

-- Under Administration->Management

Client mode enabled

Updated source tree to 1.42.3 Linksys source

Re-enabled ping hack

Firmware version changed to 1.42.3.1sv


To Do
-----

Add frottle hidden-node management

Add wondershaper bandwidth management

Add wavelan or equiv. wl statistics

Add NoCatSplash compile time option

Add Client/AP Mode select in WWW interface


SSHD Key Generation Notes
-------------------------

1) Install openssh on your local machine

2) Run ssh-keygen -t rsa -f [filename] -N '' -C ''

3) Open a browser to the Linksys box (default 192.168.1.1)

3) Open [filename] and copy contents to Linksys web interface field
"RSA Host Key in ASCII Armored Format".

This is the linksys sshd daemon's private key.

4) Copy your public key from /[user name]/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the
"Authorized Keys" field.

5) Enable SSHD in the web interface

6) Enter your Linksys password twice at the top of the screen

7) Click on "Save Settings"

8) Restart your Linksys box]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/New-WRT54G-Firmware-Built-in-TX-mW-selection-8788963 Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:12:47 EDT