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[Thumper]

Ok, trying to help a friend out, I won this router in an online contest a while ago and gave it to him since I went with a Cisco E4200 at the time.  It's a revision C1.

Recently he was having connection issues so decided to upgrade firmware and for some reason he did it through the management console (clicked the update to have it download the new file automatically and instantly upgrade instead of doing it manually himself).  Told him not to do that anymore.

Anyway, it wiped the existing firmware obviously and did not update to the newest.  I came over to find it wouldn't connect at all.  I was able to get into the reset console (hold reset while powering on, manual set IP on computer to 192.168.0.2 and gateway to 192.168.0.1 an then pointed the browser to 192.168.0.1).

This window shows the current firmware as version 1.0.0.1 dated in 2007.

I had downloaded the version 3.0 firmware and the most recent version 3.13 and had them on a flash drive, dropped them on the hard drive and attempted to flash first the newest and then the 3.  Neither one would take and the router remains down.  The page itself never changed after hitting SEND to upload the firmware, the browser displayed a progress bar for "uploading" and hit 100% then just sat saying "waiting for response from 192.168.0.1" until the browser timed out after several minutes.

Kinda at a roadblock, not sure what else to try here other than tell him to buy a new one.


 

[FurryNutz]

Seems like you have tried the recovery method and using both shipping and the latest is not working.
What browser did you use? It's recommended to use IE for updating FW. Try that once more with the shipping verion of the FW. If this fails. Router needs to be RMAd.

[Thumper]

Yeah, he is using Win7 with IE 8 at his house, brought it home with me to work on it more and used Chromium 18.0.1025.151 and Firefox 16.02 running on Linux Mint 11.

So, sounds like it is done for.

[FurryNutz]

I would call DLink support and has about an RMA. These routers are still Live and being supported. You might just get a new working one.

Good Luck.

[hrbanana]

Looks like you're hitting the browser issue in the FW loader which doesn't properly support the HTTP header 'Expect: 100-continue'. If you have access to curl (Mac OS, Linux, etc.), you can try the command referenced here at the OpenWRT wiki:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-615#browser.issues

If you don't have curl, you can use a Linux live CD/USB. I don't use Windows, so I dont know if it's available for Win32.

Note that if you updated to a 3.1X FW, you won't be able to roll back to 3.0X without editing the fw binary. Suggest you restore with the 3.1X binary.