Jacek Pliszka's page about AT76C510 Aps

Linux software for AT76C510 and similar devices

List of devices with descriptions

AT76C510 was a quite successfull cheap chipset for APs. Products based on it are:

SmartBridges OutDoor Pro and airBridge - well know and decent APs - electronics very similar to ones below but not exactly the same but fimrware and features work - how to transform a sntadard AT76C510 into it see below
Linksys WAP11 v1.2 (or 1.4) (FCC: O7JGL2411AP ): RP-TNC female - wire in the middle[reverse sex] ( you need male antenna with hole in the midle). Actually internally WAP11 has MCX connector - identical to SMC 2655W (see below) but it has MCX-RP-TNC pigtail inside so connector on the case is RP-TNC.
CAREFULL!!! WAP11 v1.x and WAP11 v2.2 are completely different hardware!!! WAP11 v1.x are ATMEL AT76C510 based as SMC 2655W and Addtron AWS-110 or D-link DWL-900AP (firmware and utilities are interchangable). This one has nice impulse 110-250V power supply.
Belkin F5D6130 - another AT76C510- small and cute , FCC Id: K7SF5D6130, two internal MCX antenna connectors, power supply 110-240V. you can disassemble without voiding warranty - 4 screws under rubber legs
Global SunProWave GL2411APA
Compex WavePort WP11
Linksys WAP11 v1.4
D-link DWL-900AP Difference from WAP11 - just one antenna. One external RP-SMA connector. On the AP wire is in the middle, thread is external. Also power supply is 100-120V only.
Netgear ME102
Eumitcom WA3001A

SMC 2655W (FCC ID: LLM 0102WA3001A) v1 (for version 2 see below) - ATMEL AT76C510 device: disasseble the device to get access to two MCX connectors. AP has hole in the middle while it is the most external. So you ned antenna cable with wire in the middle and the connector is not most external. In general it is identical to Linksys WAP11 with 4 differences: it looks different,it has MCX antenna connectors, not RP-TNC, it does not have USB port - all config is via Ethernet, it has Power-over-ethernet in the Intel/Symbol/Orinoco standard. For details look here. Connect all four: blue, whiet-blue, brown and white-brown as it will lower the resistance. However all functions and interoperability is as WAP11. Power adapter: 110-240V. Hint from Neo: if you have WAP11 v1.4 which uses just one antenna - you can disassemble WAP11 and take out MCX-RP-TNC pigtail from inside and use it for your SMC 2655W !!!

Addtron AWS-110 (FCC: PD5-LMWS120) - this is another ATMEL AT76C510 device. WAP11 firmware and utils work fine with it - it works as cAP as well. Differences to WAP11 : no antenna connectors : antennas are soldered to the board. Also power supply is heavy and bulky and only for 110V.

Installing SmartBridge firmware on AT76C510

I HAVEN't DONE IT IN A LONG TIME AND ALL RECENT REPORTS ABOUT PROCEDURE BELOW WERE NEGATIVE!!!

THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL!!! IN MOST CASES IT WON'T WORK

This was done on Belkin F5D6130. If you do it - you do at your own responsibility. I had very limited functionality after this procedure Remember !!! DO NOT USE recovery.exe from SmartBridges!!! It kills non-SB Aps completely !!! It DOES NOT REALLY WORK !!! AND IT MOST LIKELY WILL LEAVE YOU WITH AP WITH SB FIRMWARE NOT FULLY WORKING!!! ONLY A FEW FIRMWARES FOR SOME PRODUCTS WORK

Download and install ATMEL SNMP fotware, for example from here: http://www.andrewhakman.dhs.org/wap11/atmel_config/SNMPV1743.exe - link is from this page: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Wap11Hack. There exists newer version (1748) but it may not allow changing hardware MAC
Some suggest to change the password for the AP - best with ap-utils, all 3 passwords have to be different
Find snmpmanager.ini (C:/windows or similar) and change values to AppMode=2 AppView=2
Connect to the AP with the software and in Setup->HArdware->Configuration change MAC to one from SmartBridges pool 00:30:1A:09:xx:xx (I used 00 30 1A 09 82 E1 , a coleague suggested 00301A00 ) - not all MACs work!!! Be sure you do not have 2 identical MACs on your network!!! Also sometimes AP is not found for the first time - try again. If you can not do it - unistall all AP software from Windows and install 1743 again - there has been report that people had such a problem.
Install SmartBrides software from here: http://www.smartbridges.com/web/support/app.asp - 1.7 with 1.4k1 is confirmed to work - SB soft does not work with it but original one/ap-utils do. Alternatiwve is airBridge firmware - then soft works.
After loading the firmware AP dies - this is because the reset convention in AP has changed - Belkin has reset when button pressed and reset line is shortened to the ground. You have to change into active when shortened to ground. For test you can simply keep the reset button on the Belkin pressed all the time.
Now SB program does not work with AP but the original utilities from ATMEL and ap-utils do
Remember !!! DO NOT USE recovery.exe from SmartBridges!!! It kills non-SB Aps completely !!!
Final notes: LEDs are switched now: ethernet is power and power is ethernet.

Jacek Pliszka

Last modified: Thu Apr 8 23:11:46 CEST 2004