According to the README of the Vista driver, the card supports Afterburner,
but not SpeedBooster. SpeedBooster is only supported by WL-138gE. However,
the page on asus.com about the card no longer talks about Afterburner
support (it did, previously). So, the right overrides are 0x0048 for
14E4:4318:1043:100F, and 0x0248 for the WL-138gE version
(14E4:4318:1043:120F if I remember correctly). (This message is a repost
because I forgot to CC the list, as usual.)

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Friday 18 April 2008 17:51:29 Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> > Bisection complete!
> > After testing numerous settings for BoardFlags, I found that the only
> ones
> > to have a benefical effect on the card is 0x4049/0x4249 and
> 0x0048/0x0248,
> > which differs from the original 0x0049 only in the BFL_BTCMOD bit, which
> is
> > 0 by default, but 1 in this configuration. Not only that, setting
> BoardFlags
> > to 0x4049 and leaving everything else as is in the original Asus SPROM
> fixes
> > BOTH the "No TX" and the "ping time cycle" bugs! Even
> > monitoring/packetspamming while operating works perfectly. The setting
> > 0x4249 produces the same (perfectly-working) result, only with
> Afterburner
> > marked as supported. (Not sure if it actually gets enabled, though.)
> Setting
>
> The afterburner bit is not used in the driver.
>
> > BFL_FEM to 1 (0x4849 or 0x4A49) introduces the "ping cycle" bug, most
> likely
> > because the card doesn't actually support the Front-End Module.
> BFL_HGPA=1
> > (0x6049/0x6249) causes ping packet loss /duplicate count to increase
> > somewhat, likely because the card doesn't have a high-gain PA. 0x0048
> and
> > 0x0248 also work fine, although this setting disables Bluetooth
> coexistence
> > (BFL_BTCOEXIST).
>
> As the card doesn't have a BT chip, this is the correct thing to do.
>
> > So, it looks like BoardFlags was intended to be 0x4249, but
>
> I'm not too sure on the afterburner bit. The packaging box of my card
> does not tell anything about supported rates beyond 54MBit. So it most
> likely does not support afterburner.
>
> > Asus incorrectly sets it to 0x0049, which completely breaks transmission
> in
> > b43.
> >
>
> > "0x0001: BFL_BTCOEXIST: Board implements Bluetooth coexistance[sic]". I
> > don't know if "coexistance" is a misspelling or if it's the correct
> spelling
> > in British, but if it's unintended, then it should be fixed. (Just
> > nit-picking, sorry.)
>
> That bit is most likey what is actually the wrong one.
>
> --
> Greetings Michael.
>



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Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)
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