Hi There,

After installing openwrt with http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-825 I managed to screw up the firewall with luci.
I read http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.failsafe
I read http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.debrick
I read http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/boo … oot.config
I read http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.flashing.tftp

I also read https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=27549 where Slema seems to indicate that there's a bootdelay of 5 seconds and the serverip addres is 192.168.0.107

I now have the following situation When I plug a network cable into port 4,3,2 no lights come on
When I plug the network cable into port 1 it gives me a solid blue light.
Furthermore I believe I'm now at the stadium where tftp is the only solution before soldering.

On my kubuntu machine I do a ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
when I then ping 192.168.0.1 I see the blue light of port1 flashing.

So I think my dir-825 isn't broken as the only thing I did was trying the failsafe method followed by trying to flash the firmware again with the 45 sec method , followed by the failsafe method.

Any insight would gladly be appreciated
Kind regards
Guy Forssman

(Last edited by Forsskieken on 18 May 2012, 10:01)

Hi Again,

It seems that when I leave power off during severall minutes I get a first flashing orange light followed by a solid orange light.
I took a network cable going from Internet-Netgear FWG114p-DIR-825 . The cable between router 1 and router 2 is going from lan to lan port not wan. 

Internet  FWG114  DIR-825
              PC1        PC2

PC1 gets a DHCP adress from FWG114p and is connect to FWG114P and can go to Internet
PC2 gets a DHCP adress from ?             and is connect to DIR-825 and can go to Internet

Question 1: Does this setup tells me that the DIR-825 is working alright?
Question 2: How do I regain access to the dir-825 webpage?
Question 3: Why can't I login to it with Telnet or SSH on 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1? I use putty and often I get connection refused

Kind Regards
Guy Forssman

(Last edited by Forsskieken on 18 May 2012, 17:03)

Dlink's failsafe is different from the linksys wrt i had.. I had recovered mine from brick a few times let me check a few things and report back on here

Get into the D-Link recovery console with the steps below:
While powering up the router, press and hold the reset button until the power LED starts blinking orange (usually takes around 45 (forty-five) seconds )
Set a static IP on your PC to 192.168.0.100/24
connect to http://192.168.0.1, mind the quirks!
Click "Browse" and select your OpenWrt image file (openwrt-ar71xx-dir-825-b1-squashfs-factory.bin, this binary image is available in the Backfire 10.03.1rc1 download directory and above)
Click "Update" and let router flash the image (don't worry if it reboots before it reaches 100%). The page should display "Device is Upgrading the Firmware" in blue letters with the current percentage in red (with an incompatible Browser it doesn't).
The router's power LED should blink orange during bootup, as soon as it stops flashing, you can connect to it
obtain new IP from the router via DHCP and follow firstlogin

from http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-825
Follow.. Installation using firmware recovery mode

Hope that helps

Before answering one should read...My very first link was the one you placed pffff

Then you are doing it wrong, that recovery mode is not on the firmware, it's on the hardware