Topic: WL500GP 128MB RAM Upgrade

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Post #1

trucki

18 Feb 2008, 07:21

Hi,

I upgraded my Asus WL-500gp to 128MB RAM.
http://www.wl500g.info/showthread.php?t … amp;page=2
http://www.wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=12962

The Oleg Firmware is running fine with 128MB RAM.

X-Wrt not. The router doesn't start.

Only if I install the oleg firmware before and disable all RAM > 32MB with:

nvram set sdram_init=0x000b
nvram set sdram_config=0x0032
nvram commit

The X-Wrt Wl500gp PPPoE image boots.

If I try to enable 128MB RAM with:

nvram set sdram_init=0x0011
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit

X-Wrt doesn't boot anymore and I have to install the Oleg Firmware again.

How can I fix this?

Trucki

PS: I also posted this question on the x-wrt forum: http://forum.x-wrt.org/index.php/topic,657.0.html

(Last edited by trucki on 18 Feb 2008, 07:22)

Post #2

Wodin

18 Feb 2008, 15:35

What error do you get on the serial console?

Post #3

trucki

18 Feb 2008, 18:24

At the moment I wasn't able to get data from the serial console.
Do I have to connect the Max232 Chip to TX0 or TX1 ? What is the right speed? 115kbps ?

Trucki

Post #4

Wurlitzer

23 Feb 2008, 02:10

Hi trucki,
I was able to get serial data from the WL-500GP, using this schematic. You have to use TX0 and RX0. Baud rate is 115200bit/s, with 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control.
Cheers

Post #5

trucki

23 Feb 2008, 09:48

Hi,
thanks for your answers.

I logged the CFE Output. Here is what it gives:

First I installed the lastest Oleg Firmware with 128MB support:
CFE_Output_Oleg_128MB:

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)                                             
Build Date: Â¥| 10Â¤Ã« 12 22:21:19 CST 2006 (root@localhost.localdomain)                                                                     
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.                                                       

Initializing Arena                  
Initializing Devices.                     
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0                                                              
rndis0: Broadcom USB RNDIS Network Adapter (P-t-P)                                                  
CPU type 0x29006: 264MHz                        
Total memory: 134217728 KBytes                              

Total memory used by CFE:  0x80800000 - 0x8089AF40 (634688)                                                           
Initialized Data:          0x808313D0 - 0x80833790 (9152)                                                         
BSS Area:                  0x80833790 - 0x80834F40 (6064)                                                         
Local Heap:                0x80834F40 - 0x80898F40 (409600)                                                           
Stack Area:                0x80898F40 - 0x8089AF40 (8192)                                                         
Text (code) segment:       0x80800000 - 0x808313D0 (201680)                                                           
Boot area (physical):      0x0089B000 - 0x008DB000                                                  
Relocation Factor:         I:00000000 - D:00000000                                                  

Device eth0:  hwaddr 00-1B-FC-57-AB-6E, ipaddr 192.168.178.1, mask 255.255.255.0                                                                                

        gateway not set, nameserver not set                                           
Null Rescue Flag.                 
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.o                                 
Loading: .. 3560 bytes read                           
Entry at 0x80001000                   
Closing network.                
Starting program at 0x80001000                              
cpu probe         
prom init         
cpu report          
CPU revision is: 00029006                         
Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)                                                          
Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)                                                   
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@omnibook) (gcc version 3.2.3 with Broadcom modificati                                                                                
ons) #75 Fri Apr 6 00:12:23 MSD 2007                                    
Setting the PFC value as 0x15                             
Determined physical RAM map:                            
 memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)                                     
On node 0 totalpages: 32768                           
zone(0): 3276            
zone(1): 0 pages.                 
zone(2): 0 pages.                 
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0,11                                                                                
5200    
CPU: BCM4704 rev 9 at 264 MHz                             
Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS                                         
Memory: 127292k/131072k available (1799k kernel code, 3780k reserved, 248k data,                                                                                
 68k init, 0k highmem)                      
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)                                                               
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)                                                            
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)                                                            
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8                                
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)                                                             
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  unavailable.                                                
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX                                   
PCI: Fixing up bus 0                    
PCI: Fixing up bridge                     
PCI: Fixing up bus 1                    
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4                          
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039                                                       
Initializing RT netlink socket                              
Starting kswapd               
Journalled Block Device driver loaded                                     
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)                                                             
devfs: boot_options: 0x1                        
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]                                
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys                   
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en                                                                                
abled     
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A                                          
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 3) is a 16550A                                          
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision$, maxframe=4096                                                       
N_HDLC line discipline registered.                                  
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)                            
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2                                
PPP Deflate Compression module registered                                         
PPP BSD Compression module registered                                     
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered                                                  
 Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.3 at 0x0040                                                
 Flash Id: Vendor: 0x0001 Device: 0x007e                                        
number of CFI chips: 1                      
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1c000000                                    
Physically mapped flash: squashfs filesystem found at block 941                                                               
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":                                                       
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"                              
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"                               
0x000eb714-0x007f0000 : "rootfs"                                
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"                               
0x003e0000-0x007f0000 : "flashfs"                                 
sflash: found no supported devices                                  
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0                                 
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP                                  
IP: routing cache hash table of                               
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)                                                         
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM                                          
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1024 buckets, 8192 max) - 352 bytes per conntrack                                                                           
ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded                                    
ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded                              
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team                                            
ipt_time loading                
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.                                                   
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0                    
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver                               
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0                                    
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.7 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>                                                             
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>                                                    
FAT: bogus logical sector size 58624                                    
FAT: bogus logical sector size 58624                                    
NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.                                  
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.                                                 
Mounted devfs on /dev                     
Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed                                       
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5                                   
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.37.0                                                                
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)                                           
eth1: Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.38.0                                                           
vlan0: add 33:33:00:00:00:01 mcast addr                                     
vlan0: add 33:33:ff:57:ab:6e mcast address to master interface                                                              
vlan0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)                                     
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode                                    
device vlan0 entered promiscuous mode                                     
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode                                    
br0: port 2(eth1) entering listening state                                          
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering listening state                                           
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state                                         
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering learning state                                          
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state                                           
br0: topology change detected, propagating                                          
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering forwarding state                                            
br0: topology change detected, propagating                                          
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs                                     
usb.c: registered new driver hub                                
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:25:12 Jun 17 2006                                                        
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled                                       
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)                                           
ECHI PCI device 30381106 found.                               
UCHI reg 0x41 = 10                  
UCHI reg 0x41 changed to = 0                            
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x100, IRQ 2                                        
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports                            
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1                                                    
hub.c: USB hub found                    
hub.c: 2 ports detected                       
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.1 (0000 -> 0001)                                           
ECHI PCI device 30381106 found.                               
UCHI reg 0x41 = 10                  
UCHI reg 0x41 changed to = 0                            
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x120, IRQ 2                                        
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports                            
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2                                                    
hub.c: USB hub found                    
hub.c: 2 ports detected                       
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver                                                                 
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.2 (0000 -> 0002)                                           
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: PCI device 1106:3104                                      
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: irq 2, pci mem c00b0000                                         
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assig                                  
ECHI PCI device 31041106 found.                               
ECHI reg 0x49 = 80010f20                        
ECHI reg 0x49 changed to = 80010f00                                   
ECHI reg 0x4b = 80010f09                        
ECHI reg 0x4b changed to = 80010f29                                   
PCI: 01:03.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correctin                                                                                
g to 32       
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4                                                                    
hub.c: USB hub found                    
hub.c: 4 ports detected                       
usb.c: registered new driver usblp                                  
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver                                                 
usb.c: registered new driver audio                                  
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver                                      
Linux video capture interface: v1.00                                    
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00                                    
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...                                       
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage                                        
USB Mass Storage support registered.
vlan1: Setting MAC address to  00 1b fc 57 ab 6e.
VLAN (vlan1):  Underlying device (eth0) has same MAC, not checking promiscious m
ode.
vlan1: add 33:33:00:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
vlan1: add 33:33:ff:57:ab:6e mcast address to master interface
vlan1: Invalid argument
PCI devices found:
    Class 0501: PCI device 14e4:0800 (rev 9).
    Class 0200: PCI device 14e4:4713 (rev 9).
    Class 0200: PCI device 14e4:4713 (rev 9).
    Class 0c03: PCI device 14e4:4715 (rev 9).
    Class 0604: PCI device 14e4:0804 (rev 9).
    Class 0b30: PCI device 14e4:0816 (rev 9).
    Class 0703: PCI device 14e4:4712 (rev 9).
    Class 1000: PCI device 14e4:4718 (rev 9).
    Class 0500: PCI device 14e4:080f (rev 9).
    Class 0600: PCI device 14e4:4704 (rev 9).
    Class 0280: PCI device 14e4:4318 (rev 2).
    Class 0c03: PCI device 1106:3038 (rev 98).
    Class 0c03: PCI device 1106:3038 (rev 98).
    Class 0c03: PCI device 1106:3104 (rev 101).
echo for PaN ::: &&&PaN

Then I enabled only 32MB of ram with

nvram set sdram_init=0x000b
nvram set sdram_config=0x0032
nvram commit

And installed the lastest X-Wrt Image for WL-500gp PPPoE Support.
CFE Output X-WRT_32MB:

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)le (default=/var/log/messages)               
Build Date: Â¥| 10Â¤Ã« 12 22:21:19 CST 2006 (root@localhost.localdomain) -l n            Sets the local log l                                
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.. jffs2.bbc: SIZE compression mode ac                  

Initializing Arena                  
Initializing Devices.  
tivated.        
P
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0                      

                                      
rndis0: Broadcom USB RNDIS Network Adapter (P-t-P)                                                  
CPU type 0x29006: 264MHz                        
Total memory: 33554432 KBytes                             

Total memory used by CFE:  0x80800000 - 0x8089AF40 (634688)                                                           
Initialized Data:          0x808313D0 - 0x80833790 (9152)                                                         
Boot area (physical):      0x0089B000 - 0x008DB000                                                  
Relocation Factor:         I:00000000 - D:00000000                                                  

Device eth0:  hwaddr 00-1B-FC-57-AB-6E, ipaddr 192.168.178.1, mask 255.255.255.0                                                                                

        gateway not set, nameserver not set                                           
Null Rescue Flag.                 
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.o                                 
Loading: .. 3704 bytes read                           
Entry at 0x80001000                   
Closing network.                
Starting program at 0x80001000                              
CPU revision is: 00029006                         
Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.                                                                            
Primary data cache 16kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.                                                  
Linux version 2.4.30 (travis@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.4 (OpenWrt-                                                                                
1.0)) #1 Wed Aug 8 08:21:33 CDT 2007                                    
Setting the PFC value as 0x15                             
Determined physical RAM map:                            
 memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)                                     
On node 0 totalpages: 8192                          
zone(0): 8192 pages.                    
zone(1): 0 pages.                 
zone(2): 0 pages.                 
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/pre                                                                                
init noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200                                  
CPU: BCM4704 rev 9 at 264 MHz                             
Using 132.000 MHz high precision timer.                                       
Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS                                         
Memory: 30436k/32768k available (1455k kernel code, 2332k reserved, 104k data, 8                                                                                
0k init, 0k highmem)                    
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)                                                             
Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)                                                            
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)                                                          
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)                                                            
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)                                                           
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  unavailable.                                                
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX                                   
PCI: Fixing up bus 0                    
PCI: Fixing up bridge                     
PCI: Fixing up bus 1                    
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4                          
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039                                                       
Initializing RT netlink socket                              
Starting kswapd               
Registering mini_fo version $Id$                                
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)                                                             
devfs: boot_options: 0x1                        
JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB.                                                                              
Squashfs 2.1-r2 (released 2004/12/15) (C) 2002-2004 Phillip Lougher                                                                   
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured                               
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en                                                                                
abled     
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A                                          
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 0) is a 16550A                                          
b44.c:v0.93 (Mar, 2004)                       
eth0: Broadcom 47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:1b:fc:57:a                                                     
eth1: Broadcom 47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 40:10:18:00:00:2d                                                          
 Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.3 at 0x0040                                                
number of CFI chips: 1                      
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling fast programming due to code brokenness.                                                                   
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1c000000                                    
bootloader size: 262144                       
Physically mapped flash: Filesystem type: squashfs, size=0x11e737                                                                 
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":                                                       
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "cfe"                             
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"                               
0x000be400-0x001e0000 : "rootfs"                                
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on                                        
nly   
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"                               
0x001e0000-0x007f0000 : "OpenWrt"                                 
Initializing Cryptographic API                              
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0                                 
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP                                  
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes                                                    
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)                                                        
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (5953 buckets, 5953 max) - 332 bytes per conntrack                                                                           
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team                                            
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.                                                   
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0                                    
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>                                                             
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>                                                    
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.                                                 
Mounted devfs on /dev                     
Freeing unused kernel memory: 80k freed                                       
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5                                   
diag: Detected 'ASUS WL-500g Premium'                                     
Probing device eth0: found!                           
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.                                               
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.                                                     
Unlocking linux ...                   
switching to jffs2                  
mini_fo: using base directory: /                                
mini_fo: using storage directory: /jffs                                       
init started:  BusyBox v1.4.2 (2007-08-08 08:29:39 CDT) multi-call binary                                                                         
BusyBox v1.4.2 (2007-08-08 08:29:39 CDT) multi-call binary                                                          

Usage: syslogd [OPTION]...                          

System logging utility.                       
Note that this version of syslogd ignores /etc/syslog.conf.                                                           

Options:        
        -m MIN          Minutes between MARK lines (default=20, 0=off)                                                                      
        -n              Run as foreground process                                                 
        -O FILE         Use an alternate log file (default=/var/log/messages)   
        -l n            Sets the loca
Please press Enter to activate this console. jffs2.bbc: SIZE compression mode ac
tivated.
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.37.0
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
BFL_ENETADM not set in boardflags. Use force=1 to ignore.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
vlan0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
vlan0: dev_set_allmulti(master, 1)
device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
eth2: attempt to add interface with same source address.
br0: port 2(eth2) entering listening state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth2) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth2) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering learning state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating

After installing X-Wrt I logged in with putty and enabled 128MB Ram with

nvram set sdram_init=0x0011
nvram set sdram_config=0x0062
nvram commit

CFE_Output after reboot.
CFE_Output_X-Wrt_128MB:

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)                               
init started:
Build Date: Â¥| 10Â¤Ã« 12 22:21:19 CST 2006 (root@localhost.localdomain)                                                               
BusyB
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.                                                       

et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
rndis0: Broadcom USB RNDIS Network Adapter (P-t-P)
CPU type 0x29006: 264MHz
Total memory: 134217728 KBytes

Total memory used by CFE:  0x80800000 - 0x8089AF40 (634688)
Initialized Data:          0x808313D0 - 0x80833790 (9152)
BSS Area:                  0x80833790 - 0x80834F40 (6064)
Local Heap:                0x80834F40 - 0x80898F40 (409600)
Stack Area:                0x80898F40 - 0x8089AF40 (8192)
Text (code) segment:       0x80800000 - 0x808313D0 (201680)
Boot area (physical):      0x0089B000 - 0x008DB000
Relocation Factor:         I:00000000 - D:00000000

Device eth0:  hwaddr 00-1B-FC-57-AB-6E, ipaddr 192.168.178.1, mask 255.255.255.0

        gateway not set, nameserver not set
Null Rescue Flag.
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: .. 3704 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000

That's all. I waited for about 3 minutes, but the router doesn't start.

Any ideas?

Trucki

Post #6

Wodin

23 Feb 2008, 11:20

I don't know. Maybe you should open a ticket with all of this information.

I see Oleg's firmware is based on kernel version 2.4.20, while the X-Wrt firmware is using 2.4.30. Of course I don't know what the differences are between Oleg's 2.4.20 and a vanilla 2.4.20. You could perhaps get a vanilla 2.4.20 tarball and diff it with the one in Oleg's image to see what the differences are. Maybe Asus included some patch that allows 128MB to work?

Whatever it is, the problem seems to happen very early in the boot sequence.

Post #7

trucki

23 Feb 2008, 23:34

Hi,

oleg wrote that there is a patch to solve the problem. Until now I haven't tested it.

http://oleg.wl500g.info/wl500gp/kernel-mvista-mem.patch

Trucki

Post #8

forum2008

26 Feb 2008, 11:15

Can you build and try latest trunk from OpenWrt subversion (not X-Wrt) and see if it detect all RAM? Maybe it's already fixed.

The prom.c file from brcm-2.4 and brcm47xx targets (trunk). Seems it looks like that it should detect the RAM size automatically:
- trunk/target/linux/brcm47xx/files/arch/mips/bcm947xx/prom.c
- trunk/target/linux/brcm-2.4/files/arch/mips/bcm947xx/prom.c

The kernel-mvista-mem.patch patch only modifies the prom.c file.

If it's not fixed in latest trunk I'll try to create a clean patch from the above to patch prom.c file.

(Last edited by forum2008 on 26 Feb 2008, 11:58)

Post #9

forum2008

26 Feb 2008, 13:18

Please compile a image with OpenWrt trunk, the patch and test (please test with Kernel 2.4 and 2.6):

cd ~
svn checkout https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ ~/trunk/
cd ~/trunk/
wget --no-check-certificate -q -m -nd -O - "https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/3177/detect-128mb-ram.diff?format=raw" | patch -p0
make menuconfig # select your target in menuconfig
make world

After a while, ready to use images (with the patch) for flashing are in the ~/trunk/bin/ directory.

(Last edited by forum2008 on 26 Feb 2008, 13:27)

Post #10

trucki

1 Mar 2008, 18:50

Hi,

thank you for the patch.
I think it works:

CFE_OUTPUT_OPENWRT_128MB_PATCH

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)                                             
Build Date: Â¥| 10Â¤Ã« 12 22:21:19 CST 2006 (root@localhost.localdomain)                                                                     
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.                                                       

Initializing Arena                  
Initializing Devices.                     
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0                                                              
rndis0: Broadcom USB RNDIS Network Adapter (P-t-P)                                                  
CPU type 0x29006: 264MHz                        
Total memory: 134217728 KBytes                              

Total memory used by CFE:  0x80800000 - 0x8089AF40 (634688)                                                           
Initialized Data:          0x808313D0 - 0x80833790 (9152)                                                         
BSS Area:                  0x80833790 - 0x80834F40 (6064)                                                         
Local Heap:                0x80834F40 - 0x80898F40 (409600)                                                           
Stack Area:                0x80898F40 - 0x8089AF40 (8192)                                                         
Text (code) segment:       0x80800000 - 0x808313D0 (201680)                                                           
Boot area (physical):      0x0089B000 - 0x008DB000                                                  
Relocation Factor:         I:00000000 - D:00000000                                                  

Device eth0:  hwaddr 00-1B-FC-57-AB-6E, ipaddr 192.168.178.1, mask 255.255.255.0                                                                                

        gateway not set, nameserver not set                                           
Null Rescue Flag.                 
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.o                                 
Loading: .. 3732 bytes read                           
Entry at 0x80001000                   
Closing network.                
Starting program at 0x80001000                              
CPU revision is: 00029006                         
Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.                                                                            
Primary data cache 16kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.                                                  
Linux version 2.4.35.4 (trucki@trucki-ubuntu) (gcc version 3.4.6 (OpenWrt-2.0))                                                                               
#2 Sat Mar 1 12:36:54 CET 2008                              
Setting the PFC to its default value                                    
Determined physical RAM map:                            
 memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)                                     
On node 0 totalpages: 32768                           
zone(0): 32768 pages.                     
zone(1): 0 pages.                 
zone(2): 0 pages.                 
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/pre                                                                                
init noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200                                  
CPU: BCM4704 rev 9 at 264 MHz                             
Using 132.000 MHz high precision timer.                                       
Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS                                         
Memory: 127660k/131072k available (1474k kernel code, 3412k reserved, 100k data,                                                                                
 88k init, 0k highmem)                      
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)                                                               
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)                                                            
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)                                                          
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)                                                             
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)                                                             
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  unavailable.                                                
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX                                   
PCI: Initializing host                      
PCI: Fixing up bus 0                    
PCI: Fixing up bridge                     
PCI: Fixing up bus 1                    
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4                          
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039                                                       
Initializing RT netlink socket                              
Starting kswapd               
Registering mini_fo version $Id$                                
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)                                                             
devfs: boot_options: 0x1                        
JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB.                                                                              
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher                                                  
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured                               
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en                                                                                
abled     
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A                                          
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 3) is a 16550A                                          
b44.c:v0.93 (Mar, 2004)                       
eth0: Broadcom 47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:1b:fc:57:ab:6e                                                          
eth1: Broadcom 47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 40:10:18:00:00:2d                                                          
 Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.3 at 0x0040                                                
number of CFI chips: 1                      
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling fast programming due to code brokenness.                                                                   
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1c000000                                    
bootloader size: 262144                       
Physically mapped flash: Filesystem type: squashfs, size=0x13dee7                                                                 
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":                                                       
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "cfe"                             
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"                               
0x000bec00-0x00200000 : "rootfs"                                
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on                                        
nly   
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"                               
0x00200000-0x007f0000 : "rootfs_data"                                     
Initializing Cryptographic API                              
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0                                 
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP                                  
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes                                                     
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)                                                         
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (5953 buckets, 5953 max) - 344 bytes per conntrack                                                                           
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team                                            
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.                                                   
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0                                    
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>                                                             
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>                                                    
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.                                                 
Mounted devfs on /dev                     
Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed                                       
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5                                   
mount: mounting none on /sys failed: No such device                                                   
mount: mounting none on /dev failed: Device or resource busy                                                            
- preinit -           
diag: Detected 'ASUS WL-500g Premium'                                     
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.                                               
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and of                                          
Probing device eth0: found!                           
switching to jffs2                  
mini_fo: using base directory: /                                
mini_fo: using storage directory: /jffs                                       
- init -        

Please press Enter to activate this console. jffs2.bbc: SIZE compression mode ac                                                                                
tivated.        
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.                                               
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.                                                     
device eth0.0 entered promiscuous mode                                      
eth0.0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)                                      
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode                                    
br-lan: port 1(eth0.0) entering learning state                                              
br-lan: port 1(eth0.0) entering for                                  
br-lan: topology change detected, propagating                                             
BFL_ENETADM not set in boardflags. Use force=1 to ignore.                                                         
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs                                     
usb.c: registered new driver hub                                
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)                                           
PCI/DMA       
wl0: wlc_attach: chiprev 2 coreunit 0 corerev 9 cccap 0x640009 maccap 0x0 band 2
.4G, phy_type 2 phy_rev 7 ana_rev 3
wl0: Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 Wireless Controller 4.150.10.5
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x100, IRQ 2
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.1 (0000 -> 0001)
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x120, IRQ 2
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: PCI device 1106:3104
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: irq 2, pci mem c01b8000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
EHCI: Enabling VIA 6212 workarounds
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected

How can I compile X-Wrt with the patch?

Just by replacing the line:

svn checkout https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ ~/trunk/

with

svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/xwrt/whiterussian

???

Trucki

Post #11

Wodin

1 Mar 2008, 19:27

trucki wrote:

How can I compile X-Wrt with the patch?
Just by replacing the line:
svn checkout https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ ~/trunk/
with
svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/xwrt/whiterussian
???
Trucki

The first one will give you Kamikaze. White Russian is the older version of OpenWrt. If Kamikaze works for you, stick with it.

Follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Bui … ikazeHowTo

(don't forget to apply the patch, of course)

but just before "make menuconfig" do:
scripts/feeds search webif

Note which packages you want and then do:
for i in webif webif-applications webif-hotspot; do scripts/feeds install $i; done

Then in the "make menuconfig" step, look in Administration|webif

At least that seems to have worked for me

Post #12

forum2008

2 Mar 2008, 12:11

To build OpenWrt Trunk with the memory detection patch and XWrt you have to do this:

cd ~; rm -rf ~/trunk/
svn checkout https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ ~/trunk/
cd ~/trunk/
wget --no-check-certificate -q -m -nd -O - "https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/3177/detect-128mb-ram.diff?format=raw" | patch -p0

./scripts/feeds update
svn delete feeds/packages/XOrg/
./scripts/feeds install -a
./scripts/feeds uninstall webif-batman webif-olsr

make menuconfig # Select your Target System and Administration > webif > <M> webif and the other packages/features you need in menuconfig
make world

(Last edited by forum2008 on 2 Mar 2008, 15:52)

Post #13

Wodin

2 Mar 2008, 13:49

forum2008 wrote:

cd ~/trunk/package; ln -sf ../feeds/xwrt xwrt-packages; cd ~/trunk/

scripts/feeds install ...
creates the symlinks from feeds/xxx for you, so of course either method will work.
scripts/feeds install -a
should install links for all packages under feeds.

Post #14

trucki

3 Mar 2008, 06:43

HI,

which packages do I need? My PPPoE Connection doesn't really work. A Ping from the router to google.de works, but a ping from my PC not.

In "make menuconfig" I chose:

- "Target Profile" | WL500gp
- "Administration" | WebIF | WefIf, lang_de, X-Wrt Theme

That's all.

Then I compiled with "make world" and installed the image on the router.

What did I do wrong?

THX Trucki

Post #15

Wodin

3 Mar 2008, 07:15

The firewall/NAT rules probably have eth0.1 as the WAN interface instead of ppp0.

See this thread for other people experiencing the same problem:
http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=14526

EDIT: See also this ticket:
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2515

(Last edited by Wodin on 3 Mar 2008, 07:47)

Post #16

miguipda

16 Jan 2009, 09:59

Hi,

can somebody tell me if the standard OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09 RC1 for brcmxxx (ASUS WL-500g Premium V1) works on a hacked to 128Mb ?

Sincerely thanks.

Miguipda ;-)

Post #17

LaySoft

3 Mar 2009, 10:43

Hello!

Anybody knows, the Kamikaze presently works with 128 MB upgraded Asus WL-500Gp?

Thank you!

Post #18

Yanira

3 Mar 2009, 11:04

No. The patch attached to the ticket is still not applied.

Post #19

LaySoft

3 Mar 2009, 11:14

I see. Then the only (OpenWRT) solution is White Russian (with xwrt) latest build?

Post #20

LaySoft

16 Mar 2009, 09:28

Anybody used 128MB upgraded router with 2.6 kernel?

Post #21

LaySoft

3 Apr 2010, 12:19

And after long time:

https://dev.openwrt.org/milestone/Backfire%2010.03-rc3

"brcm-2.4: fix 128MB ram detection"

Post #22

opensys

14 Aug 2010, 11:24

Hello,

I do this ram upgrade for my wl500GP v1 any works fine the 1º time. after i reboot it all led's start blinking like crazy and i power off it, then power on again and he never starts.
When power on all lead blink on then off, is ok but seams stopped in same stage. I replaced the 64M ram ic's with the original ones 16M and remove the 33ohm resistor, but no lucky.
I also connect to the serial port the see if has same output, but no, none has display but serial port.
REEEE!

The to this to enable the 128M

nvram set sdram_init=0x0011
nvram set sdram_config=0x0062
nvram commit
reboot

root@OpenWrt:~# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 127124 17072 110052 0 1424
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 127124 17072 110052

I also check and have 2.45v in the sdram, and yes.
Seams all ic's has the correct power.

Can some one help to diagnostic the problem ?

MY i try JTAG it. have some pic's around with the pin's and software to do it ?

Post #23

opensys

16 Aug 2010, 23:57

Hey!

just recover it after the secret of pin 9 to gnd reset's the nvram.
yes this is just the problem. bad nvram settings.

what is the correct settings to active 128MB of ram ?

some useful info: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki/MemoryController

nvram set sdram_init=0x0011

(Last edited by opensys on 17 Aug 2010, 13:32)

Post #24

opensys

18 Aug 2010, 13:24

fixed!

in Backfire (10.03.1-rc1, r22556)

nvram set sdram_init=0x0011
nvram set sdram_config=0x0062
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0x0000
nvram commit
reboot

Memory: 126788k/131072k available (2327k kernel code, 4108k reserved, 359k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)

root@OpenWrt:/# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 127100 15344 111756 0 1432
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 127100 15344 111756

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