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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Megahertz modems dying during flash upgrade
- Date: 31 Dec 1995 17:49:17 -0500
- Organization: <p>
- Message-ID: <4c741d$d4p@panix3.panix.com>
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- Over on comp.sys.laptops there is a thread about a $99 close-out at
- Computer City (the sale is over, don't bother). It's a "US Logic" PCMCIA
- modem which is, actually, an OEM verison of the Megahertz CC3288.
-
- It comes with rather old firmware which is pretty useless, so lots of us
- have been buying them, downloading the current firmware from
- www.megahertz.com, and upgrading them. I just picked one for a colleague,
- and one for me as a spare (in spite of my long diatribe last spring against
- the initial release of the XJ2288 and my disappointment with MHz tech
- support. My main laptop modem since then has been the PPI.)
-
- In my case, one of two modems locked up during the flash upgrade, and was
- rendered useless. I returned it, and performed the flash on the
- replacement, in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY IN EVERY DETAIL as the first two, and
- it worked fine.
-
- Today someone else reported the same thing happening to him.
-
- Trouble is, now I kinda remember seeing alarmingly frequent posts about
- failed flash upgrades turning MHZ modems into doorstops. I've NEVER heard of
- this happening on AT&T, PPI, or other modems that can be flash upgraded.
- What's with the MHZ models?
-
- (BTW it's not that the "US Logic" modems are not what they appear to be;
- they are in fact relabelled CC3288's, and we are using the correct
- firmware update files).
-
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