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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster Winmodem, any comments?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 01:18:53 +0200
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- davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
-
- [ Firmware not available from support BBS ]
- > As I understand it the problem is legal rather than technical, and
- > is not something which can be fixed by USR.
- >
- > Of course if the country code was embedded in the modem hardware,
- > the firmware could check it and we could have one set of code for
- > the planet, with governments controling hardware rather than
- > firmware.
-
- I don't know this Sportster model, but the country code *is* embedded in
- the Courier, and the flash loader checks it. You can't flash US firmware
- into a, say, German modem.
-
- Of course you can, if you patch the loader.
-
- Of course there are people living outside the US who have a US modem.
- Of course these people have received the 1996-01-23 firmware through
- other channels.
-
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