Comments on: Mini Flashing Guide for DIR-400

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:05:45 +0000

I am used to dd-wrt on the Linksys wrts. I just purchased a DIR-450 (EVDO support), I am not familar with the DLink product names, will this DD-WRT version work and still support the EVDO access on the DIR-450?

By: Flowers

Flowers — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:21:23 +0000

Hello All friends

I have bought a D-Link DIR Wireless Router.
I can’t Configure it.
I have a DSL connection using Subscriber Module.
here are my IPs below

212.165.198.22>> For Subcriber Module.
And i have another IP which i have to assign to my PC.
Which i can have then only one connection.
How do i configure my router using the 2nd IP
212.165.198.23>>>>> This is the 2nd IP
Any Help Will be recommended.
contact me via my email address
tears_crossed@yahoo.com

By: Quentin

Quentin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:04:36 +0000

Hi,

I have the DD-WRT on my D-LINk DIR-400, but can’t get the PPPoE to work, I think it is to do with the fact that I have set a gateway IP by mistake when flashing the device. Anyway, I want to revert back to the original D-Link firmware, but I cant find out how to get the vmlinux.bin.l7 and rootfs described by Dmitry1972 from the original Dlink firmware. Any help for a very green Noob would be greatly appreciated.

By: shadowandy

shadowandy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:01:48 +0000

Arthur,

What do you mean by “mac address can’t be cloned”?

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:14:24 +0000

There is a problem with mac address. It can’t be cloned.

By: shadowandy

shadowandy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:37:01 +0000

dmitry1972,

Great! I will test it out later. That’s a pretty nice piece of work!

By: dmitry1972

dmitry1972 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:15:39 +0000

The problem solved here http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=191142#191142.

By: dmitry1972

dmitry1972 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:05:44 +0000

Can you describe me step-by-step how I can extract required vmlinux.bin.l7 from the original firmware bin file?

One more question – can we get vmlinux.bin.l7 from DIR-400 with original firmware to flash it on DIR-400 with dd-wrt via RedBoot ?

By: shadowandy

shadowandy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:50:37 +0000

dmitry1972,

I think we have to segment the bin file from d-link and flash it in through RedBoot instead. Didn’t realized you tried my method of reflashing for the DIR-300.

By: dmitry1972

dmitry1972 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:22:37 +0000

Do you know some “how-to”? If you imply the same way as for DIR-300 (using the emergency web server), then I should disappoint you. I’m sorry, but this method does not work for DIR-400. The router reboots at 14% of flashing process and stops responding. The only way to revive it is to reflash dd-wrt. Most probably linux has not been loaded after rebooting. When I flashed dd-wrt back I saw that boot script is still “..fis load -l linux ..exec” (even after unsuccessful attempt to flash original firmware), but I remember that the original boot script was “..fis load -l vmlinux.bin.l7 ..go”. May this be a reason for the problem? DD-WRT firmware filename is linux.bin, but the original firmware filename is vmlinux.bin.l7. I think that flashing process of the original firmware was successful, but after rebooting linux can’t be loaded because the boot script is improper – the loader tries to load nonexistent linux kernel.