Windows flashing instruction for the Bountiful BWRG1000 to DD-WRT configure your local ip to 192.168.0.254 connect your lan cable to the LAN port of the router. connect now to the webinterface of the router on 192.168.0.1 (default username and password is admin/admin) flash now ap61.bin as firmware update file and reboot the router now a new temporarily bootloader should start. (on serial console it will display some warning. but you dont need to care about) reconfigure your ip to 192.168.1.2 and connect via telnet to 192.168.1.1 and port 9000. consider the temporarily bootloader might take 1-3 minutes until it shows up on this ip important: while doing the following steps. never plugoff the lan cable or the power cord fconfig -i fis init About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y *** Initialize FLASH Image System ... Erase from 0xbffe0000-0xbfff0000: . ... Program from 0x807f0000-0x80800000 at 0xbffe0000: . ip_address -h 192.168.1.2 IP: 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 0.0.0.0 Default server: 192.168.1.2 load -r -b %{FREEMEMLO} ap61.rom Using default protocol (TFTP) Raw file loaded 0x80080000-0x800a8717, assumed entry at 0x80080000 fis create -l 0x10000 -e 0xbfc00000 RedBoot An image named 'RedBoot' exists - continue (y/n)? y ... Erase from 0xbfc00000-0xbfc30000: ... ... Program from 0x80080000-0x800a8718 at 0xbfc00000: ... ... Erase from 0xbffe0000-0xbfff0000: . ... Program from 0x807f0000-0x80800000 at 0xbffe0000: . reset now the unit will reboot and the new bootloader will be executed and is waiting for your connection. this wil take 30+ sec. connect to the bootloader with telnet on port 9000 and ip 192.168.1.1 now do the following: (consider that fis create operations are taking sometimes several minutes to finish) load -r -b 0x80041000 linux.bin fis create linux fconfig boot_script true fconfig boot_script_timeout 4 now type fconfig again and configure the bootscript to fis load -l linux exec now type reset again. the unit should now boot dd-wrt and work as known from other atheros based platforms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix: download putty.exe to c:\ create a file an c:\ called redboot.bat with the following content: rem echo off :start rem ------------------------------------------------ ping 192.168.1.1 -n 1 -w 1 > NULL IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto start rem putty rem ------------------------------------------------ break putty.exe telnet://192.168.1.1:9000 -m redboot.txt exit create a file on c:\ called redboot.txt with the following content: ^C start the bat file and power on the router.....here comes redboot