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title: ASUS WL-300g
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layout: default
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created: 2009-02-02 23:18:42 +0100
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updated: 2009-02-02 23:18:42 +0100
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toc: true
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tags:
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- know-how
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- hacking
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- hardware
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- wifi
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- asus
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- firmware
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---
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Install DD-WRT
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**Download:** [dd-wrt.com](http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fv24-sp1%2FConsumer%2FAsus%2FWL300g/)
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Patching firmware
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Older versions of DD-WRT didn't provide a firmware file for the WL-300g, but only for the WL-500gx. So I had to patch it for the WL-300g to accept.
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The router ID was found quick: In the `dd-wrt.v23_asus.trx` at `0x356fc4`, there's the string
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57 4c 35 30 30 67 78
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which is `WL500gx`. After changing it to `WL300g ` (with a space after the "g" to fill up the digit), the router didn't reject the
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firmware directly, but initiated the update, then rebooted quickly after that and showed the old firmware again.
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According to the [DD-WRT manual for the WL-500g](http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation#Asus_WL500G</u>.28Original.29),
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the router should have a recovery mode which you can enable by holding the Reset button while powering on the device. But seems this mode wasn't there in my router.
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So there has to be some sort of checksum which tells the router whether the firmware file is corrupt or not. In the DD-WRT forums
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I read somewhere, that there are only some informational bytes different between a normal DD-WRT binary firmware and the ASUS TRX format - maybe the ID-string at the end.
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Therefore I compared the two files `dd-wrt.v23_asus.trx` and `dd-wrt.v23_generic.bin` and voilà: Besides the few bytes at the end of
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the file, there were 4 additional bytes different at position `0x08`. This HAD to be the checksum. The remaining question was, from
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which bytes it was calculated. Since the seemingly compressed data began at `0x28`, I tried from there to the end and used
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[Hex-Workshop](http://www.hexworkshop.com/) to calculate different checksums, but nothing matched what was in these 4 bytes. The next
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try was from `0x10` but also no match. Then I tried starting directly after the checksum in the header, from `0x0c` and bang:
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The CRC32 checksum matched that in the header.
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So I calculated the CRC32 of my modified file and changed the header - and now I could upload the DD-WRT file using the normal firmware
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upgrade of the original firmware. After installing v23, you can easily update to v24 using the DD-WRT web interface.
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