D7000v2-V1.0.0.58 Firmware Update

[Juggler_67]

Hi,

Trying to follow the gudiance to update to the latest firmware, whe i downloaded to my Mac in the zip file i have the html refering to config docs and a file D7000v2-V1.0.0.58_1.0.1.chk. I thought a firmware version should have a .img extension. Should i just rename this, dont want to brick my router. Had a quicklook with a text editor and can see it probably is an image, but want to be sure.

Thanks

[antinode]

> [...] I thought a firmware version should have a .img extension. [...]

   Why?  (For some devices you'd be right; for others, wrong.)

> [...] Should i just rename this, [...]

   No.

   Did you make the mistake of trusting the contents of the D7000v2 User
Manual?  That would be the manual which mentions "the red Internet port"
which you don't have on a D7000v2?  That manual is lousy with errors,
apparently the result of careless copy+paste from the User Manual for a
D7000[v1], which does have a "red Internet port", and uses a ".img"
firmware image file.

   If the file name says "D7000v2", then it's for a D7000v2.  A file
like, say, "D7000-V1.0.1.78_1.0.1.img" would be for a D7000[v1].

   Trust no one, I always say (especially Netgear documentation).

[Juggler_67]

Unfortuantely installing the file didnt work. Uploaded teh *0.58.chk file and it rebooted bnd came back up with teh same version of the software.So manual is wrong and apparently teh file is wrong!

[antinode]

> [...] So manual is wrong and apparently teh file is wrong!

   Or something else is wrong.  What's your current firmware version?