Software for netgear n600 wndr3700

Get information, documentation, videos and more for your specific product. Ask the Community. Need to Contact Support? See Support Options. Contact Support. Select a product or category below for specific instructions. N Routers. Nighthawk Routers. Powerline and Wall Plug Extenders. Read the "Release Notes" file included in the kit for instructions. Saving your old settings might be helpful in case you decide to restore the old firmware.

No bets on whether you may need to reset the settings and manually reconfigure the thing after the firmware update, but taking notes on your current configuration could be wise. We are investigating this as the highest priority and will provide updates at Status.

Join Now Log In Help. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. WNDR firmware? Message 1 of 2. Labels: Firmware. It won't do anything fancy like blinking when there is disk activity , but it will turn on when a USB disk is connected and turn off when the device is removed. WNDR buttons have currently r different names in Backfire and in trunk :.

The button automatics is done with the wifitoggle package. The connection should then get negotiated, and in most cases in future your PC should remember the received network settings from then on. After finding the information and browsing the hostapd package sourcecode, the needed actions for enabling the WPS button are pretty simple:. It tells the running hostapd daemon to participate in ongoing WPS authentication sequence.

If everything goes ok, you should see in Syslog not only the button events, but also succesful WPS authentication. If you just want a straightforward simple reset button functionality, you can install the restorefactory package and configure it:. Minimum configuration is to set the right value for the reset button.

After you reset to the factory defaults you have to reinstall and reconfigure the restorefactory package. You can skip this step if you build your own image which contains a preconfigured restorefactory configuration. See port. If you have a basic familiarity with RS signals and putting together basic electronic components, you should be able to follow these instructions to create a cable to attach to the WNDR's serial port.

The author of this section prefers a two-step process, that of using a USB-topin-serial DB9 connector for the computer, and then building a separate 9-pin-serial-to-board interface. This allows you to leave the connector plugged into the board all of the time and close the plastic case of the router! If you use a ribbon cable to connect to the header on the router, you can actually snake it out between the 4-port LAN jack and the WAN jack and still get the router's case back on albeit a bit snugly , so the system looks pretty clean and polished even after adding the serial port connector.

Never ever connect RS directly to your router board!!! Whichever method you use, make sure that your OS has drivers for the USB converter that you are planning to use! You have to chop off the fancy Nokia connector and then strip wires to test wire colors with your multimeter to figure out which color corresponds to which Nokia pin number.

Once you've figured that out:. Pin 6 of the Nokia connector should be wired to pin 3 on the DB9. Pin 7 of the Nokia connector should be wired to pin 2 on the DB9. Pin 8 of the Nokia connector should be wired to pin 5 on the DB9. You should wire this cable with a male DB9 connector, which will connect to the female connector that you put on the board side of things.

The four pins on the board reading from left to right in whiskas's photo correspond to DB9 pin numbers 5, 3, 2 and no connection. Buy a 9-pin female DB9, carefully sort out which pins in the ribbon cable need to be connected to what, and crimp them into the right place. If you use crimp-style connectors, you can do this with no tools other than steady hands, and the IDC socket will slide right onto the board without having to solder anything.

If, for whatever reason, you would prefer to avoid tftp flashing, it's possible to load a new image with ymodem loady or kermit loadb. It's a good idea to use iminfo to verify the image's checksum before copying it to flash with cp. Remember to use the sysupgrade. Note that the size value 0xd in this case will vary from one image to another. Note that you do not need to update U-Boot in order to install OpenWrt. Additionally, this has not yet been tested by the author of this wiki page, and you can permanently brick your router with little hope of recovery, other than possibly finding a JTAG interface if your U-boot image becomes corrupted:.

Use Mhz chips if available. Chips with other organizations, such as 64Mx8, do not fit. The procedure below covers hardware revision 1. Revision 2 only has U. In place of the connector solder in U. FL connectors. Solder shorts between 3 and 5-pin AS6 and AS8. Solder shorts between 3 and 6 pin AS8 and AS Drill four drill holes 6. Insert the connector into the board as in the photo, and assemble the router. In If you find some, please fill up a bug. Some have been recently fixed, others are still present.

Note that most of these issues are related to the Atheros chipset and are not unique to the WNDR Here's a short list of major issues:. Previous versions had major trouble with regards to stability in an office environment. Starting with AA If you happen to brick your router, do not fear. You can use TFTP file transfer to flash the router with a new firmware. That is indicated by the power led blinking slowly and steadily, much slower that during a normal OpenWrt boot. However, the flashing process itself will take several minutes , after which the router should reboot automatically.

Forum user ole. Further to his post, if you use the factory reset button method, you don't need to worry about building a serial cable, trying to tap into any crazy boot timing sequence, or do anything else particularly tricky. It is simple and the following step-by-step process cribbed from the ole.

OpenWrt offers a generic failsafe mode , which can be launched during a few seconds early in the boot process. If you at that moment press any button WPS, Wifi or reset during the next two seconds, you enter the failsafe mode, in which you can access the console with telnet.

Successful entrance to the failsafe mode is indicated by a rapidly blinking power LED. WNDR provides the failsafe waiting moment indication messages both to the serial console and to the network, just like described in the failsafe mode article.