[Tfug] wine to flash firmware

[Doug Sax]

If it fails is it no good forever, or could you make
your way to a windows box and reflash it?



--- BoB KoT <bobkot@theriver.com> wrote:
> Anyone have experience/recommendations/comments on
> attempting to use
> the wine emulator app to flash firmware? On any kind
> of hardware.
> 
> A quick scan of http://appdb.codeweavers.com/ turned
> up only this:
> Plextor CD-R Drive Firmware update program - which
> someone got to
> work on that specific hardware.
> 
> My case is:
> Actiontec 56K V.90 PCI MASTER modem is what I want
> to flash upgrade.
> FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE
> wine-2001.08.24  - is installed and worked to
> extract
> 
> PM560LKI.EXE which I got from Actiontec's web site.
> That's just the
> self extracting .exe which expanded to these files:
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 1001  1002  244224 Feb  5  1999
> Flash32.exe
> -rw-r--r--  1 1001  1002   16188 Feb  5  1999
> Flashldr.hex
> -rw-r--r--  1 1001  1002    4406 Jun 13  2001
> Readme.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 1001  1002  457752 Jul 24  2000
> c620t3h2.hex
> -rw-r--r--  1 1001  1002     210 Feb  5  1999
> flash32.ini
> 
> So that part worked. The "meat & potatoes" is to run
> that Flash32.exe
> which I've not tried yet.
> 
> I guess one thing I might due is upgrade my wine rev
> to
> wine-2002.08.04 which is the latest rev in the
> FreeBSD ports tree.
> 
> -bob-
> 
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