D-Link DWL-G700AP
I bought a D-Link DWL-G700AP Access Point yesterday. Configured it using it's web interface, connected it to my ADSL Modem and started using it.
My laptop connected easily but after 5 minutes the signal was lost and couldn't connect anymore! I tried using my desktop to check the Access Point's web interface but it didn't load! I noticed that the Lan led was blinking but no data was being transfered(tcpdump didn't show anything). I tried to ping it's ip address, 80% packet loss! I tried resetting the device but the Lan led kept blinking. Hopefully it's wireless connection came back after the reset, so:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid default channel 6 # ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1
Now I could access the web interface using http://192.168.0.50/
My last hope was upgrading it's firmware(v2.30). The latest firmware on D-Links's websites was v2.20!? Searching the web I found a newer firmware(v2.31) on their russian ftp server.
I downloaded the firmware and tried upgrading but I got an “invalid file!” error in firefox, I tried ies4linux(what a shame!) and it worked!(this bug is fixed in v2.31, so you can use firefox 3 to upgrade the firmware if the current firmware is v2.31 or later) The upgrade was done smoothly and after a reboot everything seems to be OK! :)
I thought it would be useful if I share this, maybe someone else will get one of these access points with a buggy firmware.
The LAN interface stopped working after 2 weeks and this time upgrading the firmware didn't fix it. Don't buy this! it's a broken piece of hardware…
Discussion
i upgrade my firmware in v 2.31 and I used it as AP client… and Im using it right now as I post to this blog.. it works perfectly, you must set the IP address within the range of the main source AP. I update this as soon as may AP broke..
Do you have any updates about what is happening now? Let us know. Thank you!
Clare