Re: Recovering a "doorstopped" modem
Greg Boehnlein <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.uclinux.actiontec |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Bruce D. Lightner wrote:
> 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.
Well, from the documentation I got on the Connexant flasher, it has to run
under real mode Dos.
Try checking out: http://www.nu2.nu/bcd/
Bart's method for building a Dos bootable CD-Rom is nearly full proof, so
you should be able to build a simple recovery CDrom w/ the flasher on it.
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