D-Link DIR-300 - Wireless G Router User manual

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= D-Link DIR-300 Rev.A = Airlink101 AR430W = Airlink101 AR335W
Contents
1 Initial flashing instruction
1.1 Install RedBoot♦ 1.2 Install DD-WRT♦ 1.3 Recovery and
Upgrade
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1.4 Redboot access
script for Windows
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1.5 Redboot access
script for Linux
1.5.1 Putty◊ 1.5.2 Telnet◊
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2 Hardware
2.1 Serial port♦
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3 Overclocking•
Initial flashing instruction
Warning: Procedure below is valid only for DIR-300 Revision A. Please check carefully the revision
level of your D-Link before flashing
Don't use Builds 21676 - 23503 as it has a restart loop.
See Where do I download firmware? for links.
Windows flashing instruction for the D-Link DIR-300 to DD-WRT (by Brainslayer, modified by Sash,
v24_SP1 specific added by Deepak)
Install RedBoot
configure your local ip to 192.168.20.80 connect your lan cable to the WAN port of the router. plugoff the
power cord and replug it. You must press the RESET key for 5 sec. now enter the redboot using telnet and ip
192.168.20.81 and port 9000. connect your lan cable to the dir300 wan port. you might need several tries
since its only available for 1 second after aprox. 5 sec. of booting (below is a Windows & Linux access script
for an easy way to connect to redboot)
When you succeed you will be rewarded with a RedBoot> prompt.
DIR-300 Info:
IP: 192.168.20.81/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
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Initial flashing instruction 1

Default server: 192.168.20.80
now start a local tftp server on your computer and place ap61.ram as well as ap61.rom in the root dir of this
server
back to the redboot enter:
load ap61.ram
go
now a new temporarily bootloader should start. (on serial console it will display some warning. but you dont
need to care about). It will be waiting for connection at the LAN side of the router, so follow the instructions
that follow. Plug off your cable from the wan port and reconfigure your local (computer) ip to 192.168.1.2 (set
your DHCP server to serve 192.168.1.1 as the only address in the DHCP pool and the TFTP must also be
available at 192.168.1.2). Now you should be pluging on to any of the lan ports. Then connect via telnet to
192.168.1.1 (or to the ip your dhcp server served to the redboot) and port 9000. A DD-WRT> prompt should
welcome you.
IMPORTANT: while doing the following steps. never plugoff the lan cable or the power cord
fis init
About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y
*** Initialize FLASH Image System
... Erase from 0xbffe0000-0xbfff0000: .
... Program from 0x807f0000-0x80800000 at 0xbffe0000: .
ip_address -h 192.168.1.2
IP: 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Default server: 192.168.1.2
load -r -b %{FREEMEMLO} ap61.rom
Using default protocol (TFTP)
Raw file loaded 0x80080000-0x800a8717, assumed entry at 0x80080000
fis create -l 0x30000 -e 0xbfc00000 RedBoot
An image named 'RedBoot' exists - continue (y/n)? y
... Erase from 0xbfc00000-0xbfc30000: ...
... Program from 0x80080000-0x800a8718 at 0xbfc00000: ...
... Erase from 0xbffe0000-0xbfff0000: .
... Program from 0x807f0000-0x80800000 at 0xbffe0000: .
reset
now the unit will reboot and the new bootloader will be executed and is waiting for your connection. this will
take 30+ sec.
Install DD-WRT
The following will work for the initial flash AND a recovery
connect to the bootloader with telnet on port 9000 and ip 192.168.1.1 (If you have installed Micro_Redboot
read the wiki page about it first)
now do the following (consider that fis create operations are taking sometimes *several* minutes to finish, in
my particular case it took more than 5 minutes):
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Install RedBoot 2

fis init
ip_address -h 192.168.1.2
load -r -b 0x80041000 linux.bin
fis create linux
fconfig boot_script true
fconfig boot_script_timeout 5
now type fconfig again and configure the bootscript to:
fis load -l linux
exec
and press enter for every other option to confirm the defaults.
Now type reset again. The unit should now boot dd-wrt and work as known from other atheros based
platforms
You are done now. Wait for your router to reboot. It will take about 1-2 minutes. It may blink and reset once
or twice (as noted).
Now open a Browser and connect to address 192.168.1.1 you should be able to see the dd-wrt page.
That's All
Recovery and Upgrade
connect to the bootloader with telnet on port 9000 and ip 192.168.1.1
do the following: (consider that fis create operations are taking sometimes several minutes to finish)
fis init -f
now load the latest linux.bin from your tftp-server:
ip_address -h 192.168.1.2
load -r -b 0x80041000 linux.bin
fis create linux
Redboot access script for Windows
Make a folder and download putty.exe to it
create a file in the same folder called redboot.txt, with the following content:
^C
create a file in the same folder called redboot.bat with the following content:
rem echo off
:start
rem ------------------------------------------------
ping 192.168.20.81 -n 1 -w 1 >NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto start
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rem putty
rem ------------------------------------------------
break
putty.exe telnet://192.168.20.81:9000 -m redboot.txt
exit
start the bat file and power on the router.....here comes redboot
Redboot access script for Linux
Putty
download putty.exe to c:\ create a file called redboot.txt, with the following content:
^C
create a file called redboot in the same folder with the following content:
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo ""
echo "Enter hostname or ip address: "
read host
while true
do
if eval "ping -c 1 $host" > /dev/null; then
putty telnet://$host 9000 -m redboot.txt
echo "Router Awake"
break
else
echo "Waiting for Redboot to boot. Press CTRL + C to quit"
sleep 1
fi
done
Make the file executable.
Telnet
If you don't want to install putty for linux, you may use standard telnet and arping. It would be so (replace
eth2 by your ethernet card name):
#!/bin/sh
echo "192.168.20.81 send ip" >> ~/.telnetrc
arping -f 192.168.20.81 -I eth2; telnet 192.168.20.81 9000
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Redboot access script for Windows 4

Hardware
Serial port
3.3V TTL
8,n,1,9600
Overclocking
To overclock your router, see http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30305
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