When you are trying to TFTP, tap (not hold) the reset button to reboot the router instead of unplugging it.
Set up ping first:
ping 192.168.2.1 -W 10
Then tap reset button until it reboots
When you see ping reply with TTL 100, immediately start the TFTP transfer.
Also, it might help to use another router or switch in-between your PC and the Belkin.
I am having the same issue with no look on any of the above solutions, is there anything else i can do to over come this issue. any help is much appreciated.
Hello,
Referring to the original post.
I would like to upgrade to DD-WRT on this router so that I can use in client only mode.
I'm trying to check that I can use telnet to access the unmolested router but get the following
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:56 Post subject: Is it safe to upgrade my F5D7231-4 v1213?
I have DD-WRT installed onto my Belkin F5D7231-4. The GUI reports I have v1212UK, but the sticker on the bottom indicates that it is a v1213. Either way, I'm running the v24-sp2 (08/07/10) micro - build 14896 that I downloaded from the router database page.
This particular model uses the Broadcom BCM5352 chip rev 0 @ 200 MHz, has 8 MB RAM, and a 2 MB flash memory.
Before you get mad about me asking, I have read through a lot of the Wiki. It's full of good information, but I'm not sure how much of it is recent information. I feel like some of the information is dated far enough back that it was before the release I have, which is almost 4.5 years old now, and there may be some fixes that I could take advantage of in newer releases.
Is it safe to upgrade to a newer version, say for example, the betas/2015/02-04-2015-r26138/broadcom/dd-wrt.v24_micro_generic.bin? Instructions say that for my particular model, it will brick it. But the instructions were written prior to the version of the firmware I'm using, making that note obsolete.
If so, do I need to use tftp to flash it now that DD-WRT is already installed, or should I just use the Firmware Upgrade feature in the DD-WRT GUI? Somewhere it says not to use the web interface to flash it, otherwise, it will brick it. And I'm pretty sure I did that once without bricking it, but I'm not sure if they meant the factory web interface or the DD-WRT web interface.
If not, should I use the DD-WRT GUI Factory Defaults or try to use the reset button on the back panel to reset to factory defaults? The instructions weren't very clear on this, but I'm just going to assume it means the factory defaults in the DD-WRT web interface.
If there is some reason that it won't boot, can I tftp another version in using the same flash process at boot time that I used to first install DD-WRT? This was never really clear. I guess you could say I don't fully understand the boot process.
For example, when I flashed my Android to CyanogenMod, if for any reason it wouldn't boot, I could always just boot to the boot loader and re-flash it to something else via USB.
So I guess my question there is, if DD-WRT fails to boot, does the tftp system also fail or is that something that always exists whether or not a bootable flash ROM is available?
On a side note, if I trash it, I could just buy a new router. This one is junk at this point. I just don't have a new one picked out yet. But I don't really want to trash it. I would be okay experimenting more if I knew that it was safe enough to sideload another ROM whenever one fails to boot.
I've been using DD-WRT for about a year now. I totally love it, but there seem to be some glitches here and there. That's kind of why I was hoping to take a look at a more recent version.