Comments on: Hacking the Microsoft MN-700

By: hozay

hozay — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:11:43 +0000

I did this to my MN-700 and its now running perfectly with DD-WRT as a Wireless Bridge.
Thanks so much for the documentation. It took 9 tries to flash but it eventually worked!

By: jozerworx

jozerworx — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:32:35 +0000

Hey, this tutorial was really helpful to me in flashing my own MN-700. I am planning on writing my own tutorial and I was wondering if I could mirror some of the images and files from your tutorial (with credit, of course). My tutorial will cover the process of hacking and flashing the MN-700 to DD-WRT a bit more step by step for beginners who may have a bit of trouble with more technical tutorials like this one.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:07:48 +0000

Nevermind my last post. I looked at the pictures more closely…lightbulb went off…saw the screw “towers” on the inside of the case…

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:02:50 +0000

Trying to open the case. Do not want to break it, so I will ask: Where did you guys (or gals) start? I have successfully removed the clear plastic over the lights, but no amount of squeezing/prying has yielded any result.

thanks for your help!

Ben

By: liamm

liamm — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:58:21 +0000

@ag903 Sorry. I didn’t notice Mod_rewrite had stopped working on my gallery. All images should be back up and working now.

By: ag903

ag903 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:16:01 +0000

Could you update the pictures? I’m trying to figure out where to connect the JTAG on my NM-700.

Thanks

By: icho

icho — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:27:38 +0000

I am trying this mod now, cleaned the solder holes on PCB board, mounted a 12pin header, solder it back in, poorly(i cant tell?). I still don’t fully understand the relation between jtag 12-pin header and the wires i’m supposed to solder to the DB25. I cut a floppy drive cable and sawed off the extra slack of the plastic plug, after this I count wire 1, far left, is this the top pin 1? wire 2 to the right, is it pin 2 (bottom row first pin?) wire 3 is top row pin 2?
Am I making this counting too complicated for myself?

By: arafey

arafey — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:52:25 +0000

for DD-WRT, go to this wiki page: http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/MN-700

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:38:33 +0000

Thanks for putting this page up! I recently came across a pre-bricked MN-700 and hopefully I will be able to get dd-wrt running on it now. BTW, I just finished creating the CFE.BIN in Linux, and a couple problems I ran into as a Linux newb (in case anyone else is new to Linux)
#1. the linux command to use with nvserial is actually ./nvserial -i mn700.bin -o cfe.bin mn700.txt … remember the “./”
#2. for a while I was getting “permission denied” errors when running nvserial. Go into the properties of the file and make sure the permissions to execute the file are checked.

By: LiamM

LiamM — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:19:06 +0000

Here’s the new link http://oleg.wl500g.info/mn700/mn700.zip I’ve downloaded it and will be updating the main post shortly with the new info