Re: Recovering a "doorstopped" modem

"Bruce D. Lightner" <lightner-2huV/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.uclinux.actiontec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greg,

>>Here's the error message I get...
>>
>>   flash boot_ldr.bin 0x0 /u /dumb
>>   *************************************************
>>   ******** USB Flash programmer Ver 2.6 ***********
>>   *********CONEXANT SYSTEMS INCORPORATED***********
>>   *************************************************
>>   Initializing USB interface...
>>   USB Controller not found
>>   Fail to locate HOST USB device
>>
>>Any ideas?
> 
> Yeah.. I get this if I don't use the right USB port on my Laptop. If you 
> have a couple of different USB ports, try them all.

I have two USB ports on my WinXP laptop and on a Win98se PC.  I just tried 
both USB ports on both PCs, with no difference.

>>And, why is a "DOS boot disk" needed?  I made one for my Win98se system 
>>and tried that, but that just hung forever, never recognizing any USB device.
> 
> I don't know. :(

What I haven't done is made a "Windows recovery disk" and tried that, 
maybe that will do the trick.

Bruce

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