startup dreamup and press connect with the appropriate COM port and network unchecked ( I tested a pc to pc conncetion to make sure it works by starting hyperterminal on both machines and connecting them, it was pretty nifty anything I typed in one terminal showed up on the other pc's terminal). Anyhow I went out and bought a serial to serial female cable from radio shack and placed a null adapter at one end. I fail to understand how, if there is no firmware present to take you through the replacement process. Now I am not sure how the box is designed but I've read in many posts that you could still recover from a bad image by using a null cable. The machine hung after the erase completed and no firmware was copied in place of the one that was removed! Apparently, quite stupidly might I add, I was running a transponder search at the same time, that I hadn't bothered to cancel out of. What happened was it erased everything up to 100% and then I lost my telnet connection. I used telnet to start a session and started replacing the firmware image by issuing the eraseall command followed by a copy to /dev/mnt/3 This morning I was all fired up to mess around with my DM500S box and I wish I hadn't!
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