{"id":387,"date":"2024-01-27T09:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2024-01-27T09:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:11:40","slug":"dd-wrt-setup-03-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/dd-wrt-setup-03-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"DD-WRT SETUP 03 – COMPLETED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I bought a second hand Netgear r6300V2 router from online as it’s one of the officially supported models from dd-wrt. It’s installed with Merlin firmware when I received it, but as Merlin is a new thing to me and I have been searching and testing dd-wrt for a while, I decided to switch it to dd-wrt though Merlin is also supported for Astrill applet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I downloaded the corresponding dd-wrt firmware for r6300V2 from the website<\/a>, both the .chk file and the .bin upgrade file. When I upgraded the firmware with the .chk file, I got another error like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tried with several other versions but got this same error. I talked to the vendor and he said I can not upgrade the router directly to dd-wrt from Merlin and I need to revert it back to the factory firmware of Netgear first. He sent me the back-to-ofw file but I got the same error when trying to upgrade to this firmware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmm, so it seems I need to force the Netgear factory firmware with nmrpflash<\/a>. It mainly involves two commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nmrpflash.exe -L<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
to find the network card number connected to the router and then<\/p>\n\n\n\n
nmrpflash.exe -i net* -f R6300v2-V1.0.4.52_10.0.93.chk<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The trick here is before I run the second command, I need to power down the router and right after I send this command, I need to power on the router.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the command is run successfully, the router will be rebooted and then I get the Netgear router setup page where I need to set up the basic information, like admin account and password, Wireless network SSID and password, etc. After all this is done, I am ready to upgrade the firmware to dd-wrt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next steps are easier as I just follow the instructions from dd-wrt for Netgear router and after the upgrade is done, I get the router running on dd-wrt without any issue. And now coming the most important part: Astrill applet installation. And it works!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cool. At least I get it running now. The next step is I will change some of the settings to better meet my daily needs for the network, both for life and work. But this project can be called done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I bought a second hand Netgear r6300V2 router from online as it’s one of the officially supported models from dd-wrt. It’s installed with Merlin firmware when I received it, butContinue readingDD-WRT SETUP 03 – COMPLETED<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,10,7],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technical-issues-and-resolutions","tag-issues","tag-project","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tunerli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}