Re: Recovering a "doorstopped" modem
"Bruce D. Lightner" <lightner-2huV/[email protected]>
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Greg, OK...I'm back on track again... >>What I haven't done is made a "Windows recovery disk" and tried that, >>maybe that will do the trick. That indeed helped. It must have given me some missing USB stuff. I was using an actual "MS-DOS" boot disk. That new "recovery disk" allowed me to us my old WIN98se PC to reload the bootstrap. However, when I tried to boot my Dell WinXP laptop using that same "DOS" disk, I got zero action on the USB port [sigh]! Anyway, I've gone "full circle" again. I re-loaded the flash bootstrap under DOS, used TFTP off my RedHat Linux box to restore the entire OS (old version from the files on the Wiki), then "upgraded" to the very latest using Actiontec's Windows program. Next, I'm gonna' try to build uClinux with Patrick's "config" and see if I can do any better. Patrick: I haven't heard anymore on your progress!!! What's up? > 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. Thanks...I'll look into that. BTW: I suspect that this ARM9 chip is really the Samsumg S3 core, and Samsung supplies a Windows USB bootstrap with full source code. See... http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/SystemLSI/MobileSolutions/MobileASSP/MobileComputing/S3C2410X/S3C2410X.htm and... http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/SystemLSI/MobileSolutions/MobileASSP/MobileComputing/S3C2410X/usb2410_r1.12_20030520.zip ...which is a ZIP file with all the bootstrap sources. I'm gonn'a take a peek at that tomorrow... If this stuff was easy, everyone would be doing it! :-) Best regards, Bruce -- Bruce D. Lightner Lightner Engineering La Jolla, California Voice: +1-858-551-4011 FAX: +1-858-551-0777 Email: lightner-2huV/[email protected] URL: http://www.lightner.net/lightner/bruce/ __ ActionHack Mailing List - ActionHack-W7/[email protected] http://www.express.org/mailman/listinfo/actionhack http://www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com/wiki.php/ActiontecDualModem