Belkin Wireless G Router F5d7230 4 Driver
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While moving to Greeley my Netgear WNDR3400v2 fell a part. Being lazy I had super glued it to the inside leg of a metal desk I had and removing it with force didn’t work out so well so I borrowed an an old Belkin F5D7230-4 from my brother in law only to realize the firmware on it was horrid. It only supported WEP encryption and you couldn’t even turn the wireless of. It was a mess and rather than even wasting the time attempting to update the proprietary firmware I flashed it with DD-WRT firmware. It took less than 5 minutes to get rolling with the DD-WRT Micro. It was super simple to install from my Mac. Here’s how I got it done:
Visisted the DD-WRT Router Database and searched for F5D7230-4 which pulled up a few items. I found v1010 and downloaded the dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_micro.bin firmware to my ~/Downloads folder.
Actually, the previous poster was exactly correct - a router is a router is a router, and requires no drivers. The CD that comes with it (the router) is a setup disc (it's supposed to automagically transfer your existing network setting to the router, so that you don't have to manually configure it); but, it's isn't required that you use it - you can still manually configure the router. An updated version of firmware is available for your Router Model: F5D7230-4 G Wireless Router vA Firmware Version Information: Belkin Wireless Router Version: A.00. Belkin F5D9230-4 Wireless G Plus MIMO Router Firmware 5.02.08 This firmware is for the Belkin F5D9230-4 Wireless G Plus MIMO Router version 5xxx. View and Download Belkin F5D7230-4 supplementary manual online. Firmware Version 1.01.08. F5D7230-4 Network Hardware pdf manual download. Also for: F5d7130, F5d7230.
Plugged my Macbook directly in to a lan port on the Belkin & opened network settings: disabled Wi-Fi and set the Ethernet connection (Thunderbolt Ethernet) to a manual IP address of 192.168.2.2
Open a terminal window and cd to my ~/Downloads folder where the dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_micro.bin file was stored and typed
tftp
to start up the tfpt console.
I copied the following in to my paste buffer and unplugged the power from the Belkin router.
About 1 second after I plugged the power back in to the Belkin router I pasted the content above in to the tftp console and was rewarded with the following message: Sent 1740800 bytes in 1.6 seconds. Done!
Belkin Wireless G Router F5d7230-4 Driver Download
~/Downloads
▶ tftp
tftp> connect 192.168.1.1
tftp> binary
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> timeout 60
tftp> put dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_micro.bin
tftp: sendto: Network is unreachable
tftp> connect 192.168.2.1
tftp> binary
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> timeout 60
tftp> put dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_micro.bin
▶ tftp
tftp> connect 192.168.1.1
tftp> binary
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> timeout 60
tftp> put dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_micro.bin
tftp: sendto: Network is unreachable
tftp> connect 192.168.2.1
tftp> binary
tftp> rexmt 1
tftp> timeout 60
tftp> put dd-wrt.v24-13064_VINT_micro.bin
Sent 1740800 bytes in 1.6 seconds
tftp>
tftp>
Belkin Router F5d7230 4
About a minute later I changed my network settings back to DHCP and acquired the address provided by the Belkin router. I navigated to http://192.168.1.1 and setup the login credentials for DD-WRT. All in all it took less time to setup then it did to write this post. =)
I found the generic TFTP Flash Guide and the Belkin F5D7230-4 TFTP Flashing guide, both from DD-WRT to be handy.