[lug] OT: got a spare dsl modem?

[Lee Woodworth]

Robert Racansky wrote:
> On 10/22/07, Chris Riddoch <riddochc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/22/07, Robert Racansky <robert.racansky at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I suspect this comes from trying to go from a very old version of the
>> firmware directly to the newest.  Not that I really know for sure, of
>> course. Stupid blinking lights. These are the times one wishes for a
>> low-level serial console and a bootloader with decent diagnostics.
>> I'll bet there's a way to make it work, if I could just get to a
>> useful point.  Alas.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I was suspecting that my problems were trying to upgrade from a
> real old firmware version to a much newer one too, which is why I used
> the Restoration firmware instead.
Sounds to me like your NVRAM/EEPROM is dead if a hard reset won't get it
to boot. I've helped setup a ZOOM for a qwest static DSL. Don't remember
the model, but it eventually got fried too (probably line voltage surge
from the phone line in edlorado springs).

> 
> But that's speculation on my part, and isn't worth the time to try and
> test that hypothesis once I got it working again.
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