After successfully flashing DD-WRT onto my FON router I wanted to try and upgrade my Belkin router to DD-WRT . The Belkin F5D7230-4 v2000 router is a cheap router based around the Broadcom chipset with 2mb of flash. The complete specifications for this router can be found here. After some research on the net I found out that
- DD-WRT is partially supported on this router.
- Since the available memory is too small nothing usable can be accomplished by upgrading the firmware.
- Work is going on on several fronts to get DD-WRT micro edition compatible with this router.
- A lot documentation is available to install a USB port as well as a serial console on this hardware.
The FCC ID for this particular router is FCC ID: K7SF5D7234A I decided to go ahead despite the fact that the router is partially supported by DD-WRT, You can easily recover from a bad flash by making sure the firmware is available to the router during startup. As stated on most sites I was able to flash the router successfully and got WLAN working but LAN ports were not working properly. Some of the sites that I found useful were
- haxxed.com : Custom firmware for Belkin routers with 2MB Flash
- F5D7230-4 v2000 firmware : Original firmware for the Belkin F5d7230-4 v2000 router.
- TFTP server : TFTP server used to upload the firmware onto the router.
Note: DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT TRY FLASHING DD-WRT onto this particular router, you will gain no serious advantage and will be left with a router with no web based administration interface and will have to re-flash to original firmware.