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Hi,

Can anyone point me in the direction of install instructions for a dir-825. I have scoured your website and not been able to find any.

Cheers

curnil wrote:Hi,

Can anyone point me in the direction of install instructions for a dir-825. I have scoured your website and not been able to find any.

Cheers

Obviously, you didn't look hard enough... your router is ar71xx based and you can download the ROM on the download page. Just select ar71xx and find your router in the list.

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/download.php

Thanks Eric,

I had found that but I cannot find any instructions on which file to use (there are three that mention the 825) or what to do once I have downloaded them.

curnil wrote:Thanks Eric,

I had found that but I cannot find any instructions on which file to use (there are three that mention the 825) or what to do once I have downloaded them.

Please READ the instructions.
http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/doku.php?id=install

Btw, the install guide link is right at the TOP of the download page!!
How can you miss it?

Didn't you said you have already looked through every page of this site?
The documentation is not hard to find.

Try the sysupgrade.bin first, I have no idea exactly what the differences are. They appears to be interchangeable to me. I can use one or the other to flash my routers. Have not seen any difference. In other words, try them all if one didn't work.

Had no success flashing gargoyle_1.4.7-ar71xx-dir-825-b1-squashfs-factory.bin Router simply didn't accepted it.
Everyone facing same problem should follow instructions on http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-825 (Installation using firmware recovery mode)

Here are steps I did and recommend (I did on Ubuntu 12.04, but may work on other systems, just use IE7):
1. Upgrade official firmware to http://ftp.dlink.ru/pub/Router/DIR-825/ ... Beta06.bin (optional, I did it, but I think you can skip this step)
2. Power off router. Power on and press and hold the reset button until the power LED starts blinking orange.
3. Set a static IP on your PC to 192.168.0.100/24 Make sure you can ping router on 192.168.0.1
4. Use IE7 to access http://192.168.0.1 To install IE7 on Ubuntu do the following:
sudo apt-get install wine
sudo apt-get install winetricks
winetricks msxml3
winetricks ie7
Run IE7 with:
wine iexplore
5. You should now see recovery console web interface (it differs from standart upgrade interface).
Upload gargoyle_1.4.7-ar71xx-dir-825-b1-squashfs-factory.bin file and wait untill it says complete. The router's power LED should blink orange during bootup, as soon as it stops flashing, you can connect to it (to 192.168.1.1) via DHCP (remove static IP setup for you PC and set it to auto, reconnect).