21-06-2015, 11:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-06-2015, 11:51 PM by Canis-Major.)
Just a thread where I can hopefully either find or kick start someone else into figuring out whatever need's sussed.. for instance:
When I wrote that crap on cw, it was as good as two years ago.. but worked. Lateley, I have noticed some cause and effect of what I wrote, like how suddenly modem revert's to default/manufacturer setting's.. no it dont, but it revert's to something.. So on a 480, I loaded the netbeer version of netgear firmware, and I have another two netgear firmware, 1 from sbh, and 1 from foro.. also in virgin firmware, the following is now aparent.
These modem's now seem to reset whenever 'kicked', and I dont just mean a reset, or reset to factory, but they defo reset, ALL setting's, and if you say load a foro negear firmware onto a virgin, the foro becomes the default even after re-flashing a virgin. When you test a mac in the virgin and it is kicked, modem revert's to foro setting's, and here's the kicker, vice versa!!!!
What was your factory key changed to by whatever setting's bin you used from cw, as changed by those who never told you that you should NOT change these factory key password's? Why not? Because now when you test many other firmware's and their upgraded setting's.cfg/.bin..??
You most likely dont have the origional key to change the default settings in perm. So when the reset kicks in, you'll know why suddenly the wifi security has bits greyed out, the plan, ie US/EU wifi settings also unchangable..
When the number is kicked, EVERYTHING in non-vol is reset to what appear's to be default setting's, as this survive's across reset's, reboot's, and even re-flashing 8mb dumps.
Which bring's me to finalise with this: Back in the old days on sbh, people disagreed with me when I asked for the entire chip to be copied, not just the 2mb of the 8mb flash.. today, these chip's are hitting 256mb, yet we're still only copying 2 of 8mb.. most wont know the new security is built the same as the uefi bios's, ie 2 bios's, one hardcoded, and I believe this is what the extra space is in these netgears, a hardcopy of the origional modem's ISP setting's, we can change them, but after every mac fail, these WILL be reset, even if it's not hit you yet.
With regard's to newer 485's, and 490's, I highly suspect there is a hardcoded copy of firmware, which would explain why andy m could change mac's but not get it to stick.. ah, that magic mirror.. again..
Please feel free to chip in with any diagnosis as opposed to can I do this or that, what can we come up with?
When I wrote that crap on cw, it was as good as two years ago.. but worked. Lateley, I have noticed some cause and effect of what I wrote, like how suddenly modem revert's to default/manufacturer setting's.. no it dont, but it revert's to something.. So on a 480, I loaded the netbeer version of netgear firmware, and I have another two netgear firmware, 1 from sbh, and 1 from foro.. also in virgin firmware, the following is now aparent.
These modem's now seem to reset whenever 'kicked', and I dont just mean a reset, or reset to factory, but they defo reset, ALL setting's, and if you say load a foro negear firmware onto a virgin, the foro becomes the default even after re-flashing a virgin. When you test a mac in the virgin and it is kicked, modem revert's to foro setting's, and here's the kicker, vice versa!!!!
What was your factory key changed to by whatever setting's bin you used from cw, as changed by those who never told you that you should NOT change these factory key password's? Why not? Because now when you test many other firmware's and their upgraded setting's.cfg/.bin..??
You most likely dont have the origional key to change the default settings in perm. So when the reset kicks in, you'll know why suddenly the wifi security has bits greyed out, the plan, ie US/EU wifi settings also unchangable..
When the number is kicked, EVERYTHING in non-vol is reset to what appear's to be default setting's, as this survive's across reset's, reboot's, and even re-flashing 8mb dumps.
Which bring's me to finalise with this: Back in the old days on sbh, people disagreed with me when I asked for the entire chip to be copied, not just the 2mb of the 8mb flash.. today, these chip's are hitting 256mb, yet we're still only copying 2 of 8mb.. most wont know the new security is built the same as the uefi bios's, ie 2 bios's, one hardcoded, and I believe this is what the extra space is in these netgears, a hardcopy of the origional modem's ISP setting's, we can change them, but after every mac fail, these WILL be reset, even if it's not hit you yet.
With regard's to newer 485's, and 490's, I highly suspect there is a hardcoded copy of firmware, which would explain why andy m could change mac's but not get it to stick.. ah, that magic mirror.. again..
Please feel free to chip in with any diagnosis as opposed to can I do this or that, what can we come up with?