{"id":215,"date":"2020-03-07T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T21:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz.\/~blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:33:36","slug":"dd-wrt-wnr2000-v2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2020\/03\/dd-wrt-wnr2000-v2","title":{"rendered":"DD-WRT on WNR2000_v2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Begin with <tt>WNR2000v2-V1.2.0.8_36.0.60NA.chk<\/tt> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netgear.com\/support\/product\/WNR2000v2.aspx#download\">from Netgear<\/a>) <em>running on<\/em> the device. (If you're bricked, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jclehner\/nmrpflash\">nmrpflash<\/a> will save the day*. <strong>Many \"bricked\" states of this router are recoverable this way.<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Proceed <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.dd-wrt.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Netgear_WNR2000V2#Initial_Flash_Instructions\">as the wiki dictates<\/a>, by initially flashing <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.dd-wrt.com\/betas\/2010\/12-24-10-r15962\/broadcom_K26\/dd-wrt.v24-15962_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini-WNR2000v2.chk\">trailed mini Broadcom K26 build 15962<\/a> onto the device via Netgear's web interface. (If it seems to have worked, but you can't log in: reset the device via the red button.)<\/li>\n<li>Complete the process by flashing (per the wiki's <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.dd-wrt.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Netgear_WNR2000V2#Upgrade_Flash\">subsequent recommendation<\/a>) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">non-trailed<\/span> mini Broadcom K26 build of your choice (<a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.dd-wrt.com\/betas\/2019\/02-23-2019-r38937\/broadcom_K26\/dd-wrt.v24-38937_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin\">38937<\/a> seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.dd-wrt.com\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?t=72269&amp;postorder=asc&amp;start=360#1158164\">a crowd favorite ca. fall 2019<\/a>) onto the device, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.dd-wrt.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Installation#Flashing_Your_Router_with_DD-WRT_Firmware\">from within DD-WRT<\/a>. NOTE that <strong>I was only able to get this working via telnet<\/strong>:\n<pre>cd \/tmp ; wget ftp:\/\/ftp.dd-wrt.com\/betas\/2019\/02-23-2019-r38937\/broadcom_K26\/dd-wrt.v24-38937_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin &amp;&amp; write dd-wrt.v24-38937_NEWD-2_K2.6_mini.bin linux &amp;&amp; nvram erase &amp;&amp; nvram commit &amp;&amp; reboot<\/pre>\n<p>(attempts to use the web-interface GUI, web-interface CLI, and\/or TFTP all bricked every time.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>immediately<\/strong> upon booting: activate \"Administration\" &gt; \"Factory Defaults\"; it was my experience that if you do not, it may brick after a minute or two, and you'll have to start over from nmrpflash.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>*<em>ETA:<\/em> Red Hat Linux users <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jclehner\/nmrpflash\/issues\/27\">may<\/a> have to execute the following before using nmrpflash:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo ln -sv libpcap.so.1 \/usr\/lib64\/libpcap.so.0.8<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This router can RELIABLY be un-bricked! I\u2019ve also documented+confirmed the arcane process of getting it flashed and upgraded\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,96],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts","category-howto","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}