Linksys WRT300N v1, v1.1

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General Information

Linksys WRT300N Version 1

  • Hardware Defaults (with Linksys firmware)
    • LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
    • Web GUI Username: <blank>
    • Web GUI Password: admin
  • DD-WRT Defaults (dd-wrt.v24 beta)
    • LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
    • Web GUI Username: root
    • Web GUI Password: admin

Installation Procedure

As of now (June, 2007), the only supported version of DD-WRT is beta version 24.

  • 1. Download DD-WRT beta version 24
    • A. Navigate to the DD-WRT Downloads Page -> Beta -> Generic Broadcom -> dd-wrt.v24 beta
    • B. Scroll down to find the latest version (Tested with: 2007 - 0530 from May 30th, 2007)
    • C. Download: dd-wrt.v24_wrt300n.bin
    • D. Keep the downloads page open as you may or may not need it.
  • 2. Open up Internet Explorer (Firefox 2.0.0.4 did not work for me, unfortunately)
    • A. Navigate to your router's web GUI (default location: http://192.168.1.1)
    • B. Write down/Copy+Paste any settings you may want to keep (e.g. MAC addresses for MAC filtering)
    • C. Reset the router to its factory defaults
    • D. Navigate to Firmware Upgrade and select dd-wrt.v24_wrt300n.bin in the file browser
    • E. Initiate the upgrade
  • 3. If you have any issues with the firmware upgrade failing:
    • A. Download the mini version of DD-WRT beta version 24 (Repeat step one above and download dd-wrt.v24_mini_wrt300n.bin instead).
    • B. Repeat step 2 for installing the mini version.
    • C. Upgrade to the full version (if you wish)

Post-Installation

Once you have the firmware upgraded, your router is already set and ready to be used, configured, etc.

Known Issues

  • I use static DHCP for my network and found that this page had strange errors (incorrect labels, missing radio buttons). If this happens to you, try a hard reset (hold the reset button in the back of the router for at least 10 seconds). This fixed this problem for me.
    • Relatively same issue with MAC filtering, except the only issue was that hte word "error" replaced labels.
  • I changed some settings in the administration page and it changed my language to one of the Asian character sets (no, I did not change the language in the selection box). I was honestly too lazy to try and figure out where the language section was, so I hard reset the router and it defaulted back to English.