D-link DSL-g624T bricked

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D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Wed May 13, 2015 2:27 pm

Hi all,
yesteday night I flashed this firmware routertech-ar7wrd-adam2-firmware-4ports-20120130 using the dlink router administration interface on my old dsl-g624T
Not the lan port led is on (when the lan cable is connected) and also the power led is on but I cannot connect to the router: the lan still say limited connection (windows 8) and now wifi present.

There is a way to recover the router?
I was trying t use it as wireless access point, connected to the main router but its lan ports did not work so I tryed with the Router Tech firmware
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by thechief » Thu May 14, 2015 12:02 am

If the LAN ports were not working, how did you flash the firmware? I hope you didn't do it via wireless ...
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Thu May 14, 2015 1:30 pm

Ops, yes, via wireless.
I'm aware that is not the best way to flash things but was an old old router so I accepted the risk.
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by thechief » Thu May 14, 2015 1:41 pm

Well, that is a very good way to produce a brick. Even if the router is not bricked, the wireless AP is disabled by default, and you need to enable it manually - which means that you still need a connection via a LAN port. Your only hope is to get one of the LAN ports working. If you set the network card to connect at 10mbps, you might be able to resurrect some of the LAN ports.
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Thu May 14, 2015 10:39 pm

Setting my lan port to 10Mbs worked.
I enabled wifi as displayed in the home page:


LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
DHCP: Enabled
DHCP Range: 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254
Primary DNS:
Secondary DNS:
Wireless: Enabled
SSID:
Security Type: WEP
WEP Key: xx xx xx xx xx

two problems:
* i cannot see the McG wifi from smartphone nor from laptop.
* set in the related page to avoid wireless security.

I already restarted the AP from the dedicated page but nothing happened.

Now can I restore the router lan ports?
I want to use it as wireless access point to have wifi signal in a room (I want to connect this old dlink to the new netgear via ethernet cable)
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mstombs » Fri May 15, 2015 9:49 pm

Failing LAN ports often hardware failure due to bad electrolytic capacitors.
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Fri May 15, 2015 9:56 pm

So probably is cheaper to buy a new routert..
What about wifi? I enabled it as displayed in the previous post but no new wireless appears on the hone or laptop
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by thechief » Fri May 15, 2015 11:17 pm

Did you save your settings and reboot the router?
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Sat May 16, 2015 10:33 pm

yes, saved, reboot AP and also the router and the wifi come back to disabled by itself :(
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mstombs » Sun May 17, 2015 10:36 am

Old thread here on fixing LAN ports

How to fix D-Link G624T ethernet ports @ 10 Mbps only

DLink mains power bricks also known to fail
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by thechief » Sun May 17, 2015 6:47 pm

mcgyver83 wrote:yes, saved, reboot AP and also the router and the wifi come back to disabled by itself :(
How exactly did you save it?
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Wed May 20, 2015 11:21 pm

Bow wireless is on in the Setup page.
This is the home page
LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
DHCP: Enabled
DHCP Range: 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254
Primary DNS:
Secondary DNS:
Wireless: Enabled
SSID:
Security Type: WEP
WEP Key:xxxxxx

The problems are:
* no "MCG" wireless signal found with the laptop nor with the smartphone.

I set "Security" to none, click apply, click in the bottom part of the page "Restart AP", click "Save All", click "Restart Access point" but it still has wep protection and not detected by others devices
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by thechief » Thu May 21, 2015 8:43 am

You should restart the router instead of just restarting the AP.
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by mcgyver83 » Thu May 21, 2015 10:54 pm

I set no wireless security, apply, save all, reboot router, the page shows wait 3 minutes.
I waited but when I login again wep security is set and also no wireless appear searching form the laptop or the smartphone.

LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1
DHCP: Enabled
DHCP Range: 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254
Primary DNS:
Secondary DNS:
Wireless: Enabled
SSID:
Security Type: WEP
WEP Key: xx xx xx xx

Why no wireless detected?
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Re: D-link DSL-g624T bricked

Post by thechief » Fri May 22, 2015 6:48 am

Post the firmware system diagnostics (under the Tools menu) - after removing all personal information.
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