Potential for WHR-G300N v2 support?

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ConcreteDonkey
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PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2010 23:24    Post subject: Potential for WHR-G300N v2 support? Reply with quote
Hello,

I have recently found a Buffalo WHR-G300N for sale for a rather low price, although I'm aware of the current issue with the fact of version 2 of the router not being supported. My main question is, is there a chance that this will be supported in the near future, as from the router specification I can see that it has 8mb of Flash and 32mb of RAM which assumingly won't make it impossible to port to.

Any advice would be appreciated
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LOM
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 3:26    Post subject: Reply with quote
Where do you see that it has 8Mb flash?
You are either wrong on the flash size or on the router model.

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ConcreteDonkey
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:34    Post subject: Reply with quote
It is showing in the router database as having 8mb of Flash, although when checking the wiki it says that only 4mb is available.
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 13:07    Post subject: Reply with quote
does it matter if its 4 or 8mb? v1 has 4mb and that works ... im also interested in getting a v2 up and running with dd-wrt

what will it take to make this happen?


found them going cheap in the UK
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/201376
ConcreteDonkey
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2010 16:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
shim wrote:
what will it take to make this happen?


Maybe buying two and donating one to DD-WRT? Razz
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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 2:50    Post subject: Reply with quote
anyone else up for chipping in?

where does the router need to be shipped?
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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 12:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2010 17:10    Post subject: Reply with quote
maybe whr-g300n v2 can support dd-wrt...
whr-hp-g300n have same Atheros 7240 chipset with whr-g300n v2 and hp have 8mb flash and g300nv2 have too, hp have 32mb ram and g300nv2 have too... but maybe I'm wrong...
http://svn.dd-wrt.com:8000/dd-wrt/changeset/13744
^what u think about that? if u edit whr-hp-g300n firmware with this svn can it work with whr-g300n v2?
can someone accept this?
or am I wrong?
cr4zyd
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2010 21:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
brainslayer uploaded a whr-g300n v2 compatible firmware a couple days ago and it works fine for me.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fothers%2Feko%2FBrainSlayer-V24-preSP2%2F05-25-10-r14573%2Fbuffalo_whr_g300nv2/
ConcreteDonkey
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2010 23:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
If anyone has noticed the router has now increased to £60 on ebuyer although I have been able to find it on dabs for £25

http://www.dabs.com/products/buffalo-wireless-n-nfiniti-broadband-router-and-ap-704F.html?q=%22WHR-G300NV2-EU%22

Be warned though today (Sunday 30th May) is the last day it will be at this price.
cr4zyd
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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2010 0:07    Post subject: Reply with quote
like i said, it works for me so dont go off buying that if its not necessary :)

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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2010 0:15    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for the screenshot, although you're slightly late with the message as I have already purchased one Smile

Was it just a simple flash from the WebGUI with the file or did you have to use TFTP?
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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2010 8:30    Post subject: Reply with quote
I flashed "webflash" file and it works fine...
I reset g300nv2 to factorydefaults
then I flashed "webflash" image via webmanagement and wait
and finish
then go 192.168.1.1
Thank you brainslayer.
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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2010 13:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
I would very much appreciate to get pm's with the boot loader of WHR-G300Nv2 attached.

Everyone ought to do backup of their boot loader and save it in case they later on brick their router during experimenting or updating.

It is a weekly occurrence here in the forum to see users requesting a copy of the boot loader for their router, users who has bricked their routers but didn't take a copy when the router was working.

You can retrieve a copy of your boot loader by pointing your browser to 192.168.1.1/backup/cfe.bin
This only works if you have dd-wrt firmware on the router.

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ConcreteDonkey
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 17:41    Post subject: Reply with quote
In case anyone else is interested my router arrived to day which I swiftly installed the DD-WRT build previously recommended. It was extremely easy and I'm now very satisfied with my new router Smile
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