AllenH said:
Well, I've had some success. I found the application (I'll swear it
was not there before --- I must have been in the wrong place).
Downloaded it sucessfully, but I still can't get it to open the voip
file.
Under IZArc - C:\ Docs and Settings?Owner\My Docs\voip.gz I get:
in the left box: voip.gz, and in the box to the right: voip.img
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but no amount of clicking will actually open anything. Just can't
understand what I'm doing wrong. I've looked at the help files, but
to no avail. Grateful for further advice.
I don't use that zip program and I am unfamiliar with the hardware you are
trying to update. However, I went to the Minitar site and downloaded the
most recent firmware update for networking.
The download was a zip file (voip-0022.zip). That zip contained two
files...dsp.ds and voip.gz.
The *.ds file only needs to be extracted. The voip.gz is a compressed file
containing voip.img.
While those files may not be the ones you need, I am reasonably sure the
ones you want were packaged in the same way; therefore...
1. Click on the *ZIP* file you downloaded (you may have to double
click...I'm lazy and use point to select, click to open). Your new
compression program should then open and show you the two files contained in
the zip.
If the compression program does not open the zip you clicked on then it
is not set as the default program for that file type. No matter, open the
compression program, click "File" in its title bar then "Open" in the drop
down menu then browse to the file you want to open.
2. Once the downloaded zip file is open, extract both files to a folder,
Desktop is fine.
3. You need do nothing further with the *.ds file.
4. You once again need to use your compression program to open voip.gz.
Once open, extract the *.img file it contains to wherever you put the the
*.ds file.
You should now have the two files - *.ds and *.img - you need for updating.
However, the updating seems to require a particular sequence...see this page
http://www.minitar.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1955
I don't know if that page is pertinent to your hardware or not. Point is,
there is a specific way to update and you need to determine what it is and
follow it. That includes the directory location of the unzipped files from
Step #1 above; the Desktop may or may not be satisfactory, I don't know.
Also, according to that page, the voip.gz file need not be uncompressed to
the *.img file in it; apparently, the updating process will unzip it and
extract the necessary files from the image file. Again, I don't know but I
suspect that is correct.
Don't forget to dump all the files you unzipped after you update, no need to
keep them. If you want, keep the zip file that contained them but again, no
need.
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