Monday, 12 June 2006.
HOWTO flash a DI-514
If you have a D-Link 514 wireless router and you were unfortunate enough to interrupt the firmware upload or something else
went wrong here is a short guide how you can bring your router back to life.
When something goes wrong at boot up the bootloader will attempt to download the file application.dlf over TFTP from 192.1 68.1.100. If you are curious like I was, you can see it with the help of the tcpdump command. You can take the firmware from the D-Link site. What now follows is a step by step guide for the somehow less *nix inclined users.
You will need to set the IP of your PC to 192.168.1.100. The Ethernet connector of your computer should now be plugged in one of the four Ethernet ports of the router (Not in the WAN port.)
You will need a TFTP server. One of the ways is to download the DBOX II Boot Manager . You need to turn on the TFTP server option and turn off the NFS server option. The boot file menu must point to a file named application.dlf which you downloaded from D-Link's site.
Now you are set. Cross your fingers, press the START button in the Bootmanager window and turn the router on. The route r will download its firmware and reset.
Have fun!
When something goes wrong at boot up the bootloader will attempt to download the file application.dlf over TFTP from 192.1 68.1.100. If you are curious like I was, you can see it with the help of the tcpdump command. You can take the firmware from the D-Link site. What now follows is a step by step guide for the somehow less *nix inclined users.
You will need to set the IP of your PC to 192.168.1.100. The Ethernet connector of your computer should now be plugged in one of the four Ethernet ports of the router (Not in the WAN port.)
You will need a TFTP server. One of the ways is to download the DBOX II Boot Manager . You need to turn on the TFTP server option and turn off the NFS server option. The boot file menu must point to a file named application.dlf which you downloaded from D-Link's site.
Now you are set. Cross your fingers, press the START button in the Bootmanager window and turn the router on. The route r will download its firmware and reset.
Have fun!