Buffalo AirStation WLI-H4-D1300

This device is Broadcom based. OEM Arcadyan.

Review on SmallNetBuilder, part 1, internal shot of the WLI-H4-D1300 included
 * 10:6F:3F OUI is likely
 * "P/N: 141883320008J" is silkscreened on the BCM4360 wireless module.

The BCM4331 wireless module uses 3x Skyworks (SiGe) SE2594L (Dual Band 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Front End). The BCM4360 wireless module uses 3x Skyworks (SiGe) SE5003L (5 GHz, 23dBm Power Amp w/ Power Detector).

The Buffalo Firmware is bad. This Devices performs some thing like a MAC Address NAT substitution instead of 4 MAC WDS transport. The Changes of the MAC Address is not compatible to all Network applications. For example: Connecting multiple Routers with aditional subnets will not work over this "Bridge"!

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jffs Issue in DD-WRT
This problem is caused by the firmware encountering an unmarked bad block during an erase operation while attempting to setup a JFFS2 filesystem on device /dev/mtd/4.

Most people will probably never experience this problem. The AC66U, the D1800H, and the Buffalo WLI-H4-D1300 Media Bridge use the same Samsung flash memory chip. In my case, 4 of my 5 D1800H's had the problem but my D1300 didn't. Neither of my AC66U's had the problem. One person on one of the AC66U threads reported having the problem; here's a link to his post.

If you have the problem, you will not be able to create or copy directories and files to /jffs. Here are some example error messages:(this list was shortened to save space - it can go on for several pages)

Also the Status -> Router webpage will show that JFFS2 has no free space.

To fix this problem try the following at a command line prompt:

This command erases and marks bad any bad blocks encountered so that they can be "skipped" and formats the partition to JFFS2 specifications. I believe the firmware uses the mtd erase command which seems to fail at handling bad blocks. The flash_erase command needs to be run only once.

- Magnetron1.1