D-Link 713p- Firmware Upgrade Follies- Router Lockup

Hey,

The wireless portion of my D-Link 713p router wasn't working, but the
wireline portion was. So, following D-Links Knowledge base and Faq,
I tried to do a firmware upgrade via a Cat-5 cable connection. Now,
the router is completely locked up and can not be flashed again. The
M1 and M2 lights just go on solid instead of M2 solid/M1 blinking.

D-Link told me to shove it, despite the fact that I trashed the router
using their software to upgrade it, following their recommendations.
Real sweethearts.

Methinks the dlink software might have corrupted the boot record on
the EEPROM. Does anyone else know how to recover a 713p in this
state? Otherwise it is going in the trash bin.

Oh, and after it was toasted, I opened it up out of curiosity. This
POS has a PCMIA wireless card inside it that had worked loose from the
mounting. Great. So the no wireless connectivity was because of a
physical mounting design defect. You could see where they had tried
to band-aid it by putting clear caulk across the juncture between card
and mount. Tragically cheap.

Any help appreciated to resurrect this thing. - Rob Perkins

Have you tried accessing the router via the serial port? If the firmware is
totally hosed this won't help but it's worth a try. You can reset the router
to its defaults.
I locked myself out playing with MAC address filtering and that's how I got
back in. One problem. The directions say hit enter after the router self
test finishes. It took me several tries to get this to work.

"robert perkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hey,
>
> The wireless portion of my D-Link 713p router wasn't working, but the
> wireline portion was. So, following D-Links Knowledge base and Faq,
> I tried to do a firmware upgrade via a Cat-5 cable connection. Now,
> the router is completely locked up and can not be flashed again. The
> M1 and M2 lights just go on solid instead of M2 solid/M1 blinking.
>
> D-Link told me to shove it, despite the fact that I trashed the router
> using their software to upgrade it, following their recommendations.
> Real sweethearts.
>
> Methinks the dlink software might have corrupted the boot record on
> the EEPROM. Does anyone else know how to recover a 713p in this
> state? Otherwise it is going in the trash bin.
>
> Oh, and after it was toasted, I opened it up out of curiosity. This
> POS has a PCMIA wireless card inside it that had worked loose from the
> mounting. Great. So the no wireless connectivity was because of a
> physical mounting design defect. You could see where they had tried
> to band-aid it by putting clear caulk across the juncture between card
> and mount. Tragically cheap.
>
> Any help appreciated to resurrect this thing. - Rob Perkins

"Charlie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<%8v%a.4864$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Have you tried accessing the router via the serial port? If the firmware is
> totally hosed this won't help but it's worth a try. You can reset the router
> to its defaults.
> I locked myself out playing with MAC address filtering and that's how I got
> back in. One problem. The directions say hit enter after the router self
> test finishes. It took me several tries to get this to work.

Well, I connected a nullmodem cable to the router from my laptop, and
when I reboot, I get two solid lights. The router self test never
finishes. I believe I am hosed. I tried shorting pins 3 and 8 on
the serial port of the router; that put it into a reset mode once, but
still was unable to get access vial serial.

Bah.
Thanks for the advice.

Rob