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Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) uwiz Profile Has anyone successfully gotten a PC to configure an Xbox Wireless-G adapter (MN-740)? I nabbed one for $38 on clearance. It's designed to only be configurable by an Xbox (big surprise there!) with some proprietary software on disc, unreadable by a PC, but it's configured via an Ethernet connection. There has GOT to be a way to hook a PC to it and trick it into thinking that it is receiving commands from an Xbox. Does anyone have any ideas? I have an Xbox (lol hueg) but I'd love to make this fully functional under a PC connection and do away with it. 11-14-2004 21:24:32

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) wat931 Profile The software might give ya a clue. You could try reading the software cd with a XISO reader program and extracting the software. xbox-scene tools page Or put it in a modded box and ftp into it to extract the software. 11-15-2004 12:32:08

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email I was under the impression that once the device was configured, you could use it on any device that had an Ethernet port. Is that not the case? Anyways.. if it's configured through the Ethernet port, you could get a cheap Ethernet hub (not a switch), and use Ethereal to sniff out the traffic between the XBox and the device. Then it's just a matter of playing it back at best, or reverse-engineering the proprietary protocol at worst. Seriously.. if these things are now going for the $40's, I doubt it'll be long before other hackers pick it up and come up with an open-source config tool for it. -WP 11-17-2004 11:23:42

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) uwiz Profile The reason I'm asking (besides that it OUGHT to be configurable from other than an Xbox console) is that, every so often, the adapter seems to lose the ability to speak TCP/IP to anything other than my LAN (192.168.x.x) - it apparently drops the gateway. I can still see all the file shares I have on the LAN, just can't reach the gateway or anything on the external Internet. Oddly enough, reconnecting the unit temporarily to the Xbox fixes this. (Imagine that. :P) I'm (just) guessing that the Xbox must be sending some kind of keepalive to the unit, and without that, it's changing something that prevents it from using the Internet. So, no, I wouldn't say that it's usable on ANY device that has an Ethernet port. At least the one I've got appears to prefer an ongoing direct connection to an Xbox. (Again, color me sarcastically surprised! :P) Also, the $38 was a clearance price - it still looks like they're going for $80-90. I'll have to see about sniffing its communications with ethereal... and maybe I'll take my chances with Xbox technical support too. 12-08-2004 19:44:56

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) uwiz Profile I should add, too, that I have swapped the MN-740 out with a Belkin access point that is in bridging mode (via WDS), and it works perfectly - both LAN and Internet. Man, what does Microsoft DO to this stuff, I have to wonder...? 12-08-2004 20:03:14

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) uwiz Profile Aha, it CAN be talked to by a computer, albeit in a limited way. See this page, pointed out to me by Xbox tech support: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/broadbandnetworking/readme/readme_mn740_101.htm It'd be interesting to see what kind of info this sends. I wonder if it performs enough of a reset that I could use it to get back on my gateway when the adapter locks up the way it has been...? 12-14-2004 04:01:57

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Hmm.. maybe the adapter's dropping the gateway because the DHCP lease expired? Crazy idea... it might be possible to run the XBox configuration application on a real windows machine, via cxbx. It's been a long time since I've been over to xbox-scene, but it was making great progress about a year ago. 12-15-2004 12:14:43

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) xboxhacker Profile Have any of you modded your xboxes yet. It would probably help 300%. You could get something like XBMC on your xbox. XBMC networks everthing you could think of and has a GUI like Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition! It handles audio, video, lcd screens, etc. You should try it. 01-28-2005 17:55:30

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) xboxhacker Profile You might also want to try it out with a standard crossover cable and go from their. I havn't successfully networked my xbox but my home computer has recognized something on the other end and received a package every now and then. 01-28-2005 17:57:24

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email You miss uwiz's whole point: He wants to use the adapter on something that's not an Xbox. From a hardware point of view, it should be possible. From a software point of view, it looks like Microsoft has locked stuff down. 01-29-2005 19:30:50

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) uwiz Profile Rock ON! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13360873 Title: [Microsoft] Hack MN-740 to tal DGL-3420 firmware I *thought* that D-Link DGL-3420 package looked awfully familiar... Basically, what you do is, get yourself the MSBNDownload.exe updater, then apply some modified catalog files and a "new version" firmware to it ("01.00.02.0022"). This "new version" firmware is actually a slightly tweaked version of the DGL-3420 firmware v1.01. MSBNDownload happily blasts the DGL-3420 firmware into place, then checks for the "updated" MN-740 and says "oh no, I don't see an MN-740 anywhere! I must have failed!" (You might want to have it retry, once more, to make sure that it doesn't see an MN-740. That means the flash most likely succeeded!) At that point, manually set the IP address of the unit you have connected to something in the 192.168.0.x range, then connect to http://192.168.0.30 - and voila, you'll see the DGL-3420's web-based interface. Reconfigure the unit (IE works best :P imagine that!) and you're set to go! One person at the end of that thread complained of having an MN-740 unit that claimed to have firmware "01.00.02.0026" in it. I suspect that if you renamed the new firmware to be .0027, the same procedure would work, but I don't know - mine was .0021 when I started. I understand it still works with an Xbox too, but I have pretty much given up playing games on those anyway... 08-30-2005 01:11:02

RE:Xbox wireless adapter (MN-740) hacking? (modified 0 times) bios Profile Does anyone have an img file of this cd. I lost mine and have no way to configure the MN-740 now. Please help 07-28-2006 14:55:03

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