How to upgrade Cisco 675 with linux?

[Patrick Fleming EA]

http://www.qwest.com/dsl/customerservice/win675ups.html
download the file for your modem:
http://www.qwest.com/dsl/customerservice/downloads/675cbos2.4.3.exe

# unzip 675cbos2.4.3.exe
Archive:  675cbos2.4.3.exe
  inflating: nsrouter.c675.2.4.3.bin  
  inflating: Release Notes for CBOS 2_4_3.txt 
viola! you have your .bin file.


On Fri, 10 May 2002, Eric Richardson wrote:

> Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
> 
>  > I upgraded mine(678) using minicom. Once the settings were correct
>  > in  minicom as, set by using root, I did #minicom cisco (where
>  > cisco is the name of the configuration file) Hit enter at the
>  > minicom screen and you should get the  cbos> prompt. Follow the
>  > instructions on power cycling the modem then  upload and
>  > configuration from here: 
> http://www.infomagic.net/pipermail/luna/2002-March/001335.html
>  >
> 
>  >
>  > I did find that if you hold down ctrl+C before powering back up you
>  > are  more likely to get the correct prompt the first time.
>  >
> I tried this on the Mac but since I don't have the correct serial to USB 
> adapter it wouldn't work-I could connect and get the prompt and such but 
> after that it wouldn't work. I tried using the same file via minicom and 
> I get a Communications error but I bet that the file is not recognized 
> as it is probably in Macbinary format or something. The download for 
> windows is an exe so that is not going to help. Cisco doesn't allow 
> secondary customers to download the images so I'm stuck I think for the 
> time being. One thing good is when the process fails, the system reboots 
> to the old version.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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