 gaviperMy Best Friend Is A Boxer
join:2000-09-04
Carrollton, GA | reply to Greg53
Re: [netopia] Netopia 3347 NWG said by Greg53 :
There must be some way to re-write the eeprom to remove the isp customization.
There is no need to rewrite the eeprom. Try this and see if it works for you. Telnet into the modem. Hyperterminal will work fine for this.
Type config, then hit the enter key.
Type set, then hit the enter key.
At this point look at your monitor. Does the bottom line look like this?:
autoConfig (on) [ off | on ]:
If so, type off. Then hold the enter key down for several seconds untill you get to lines that look like this:
Netopia-3000/xxxxxxxx (top)>>
Then type save and hit the enter key.
When the screen says that the configuration data has been saved, type exit and hit the enter key. Then type restart and hit the enter key. When the modem restarts close hyperterminal and access the Netopia using your web browser. See if the interface now looks like a regular Netopia modem without any reference to Bellsouth. This procedure worked for me with a Netopia 3347NWG-006. Give it a shot. If it does not work you can always telnet back into the modem and turn autoConfig back on. |
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| said by gaviper: See if the interface now looks like a regular Netopia modem without any reference to Bellsouth. Can you define that further? My BellSouth supplied NWG looks nothing like the screen shots here ;
»portforward.com/english/routers/···achi.htm
It more resembles these;
»AT&T Southeast Forum FAQ »Netopia 3347 Screen Shots and Menus
The prior screens seem to be more geared toward a home user and seem to be a bit more friendly. Is this the firmware you folks are trying to get working on a Bellsouth unit?
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said by gaviper:There is no need to rewrite the eeprom. autoConfig (on) [ off | on ]: If so, type off. Autoconfig is already off on this Covad model, so there must be more to it than that.
The Bellsouth version is actually quite good, all the options are available through the GUI. The Covad version is quite limited, it does not even have a link to enable 'expert mode'. Everything can be configured manually over telnet, but that is a pain sometimes. |
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gaviperMy Best Friend Is A Boxer
join:2000-09-04
Carrollton, GA
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First of all, I bought my NetopiaNWG 006 modem used from an Ebay vendor. When I first hooked it up and accessed it by typing 192.168.1.254 in my browser, it had the classic Netopia web page interface as is shown in screen shots in your second link. All expert features were accessible. The modem worked perfectly. I could not leave well enough alone.
Since I did not know what kind of configuration changes might have been made to the modem by the previous owner, I decided to reset the modem by pressing the button on the back. After I reset the modem, I accessed it again using the modems web page interface so I could set it up for my ISP. I immediately noticed the interface did not look at all like it did before the reset. The screen where I should type my username was not blank as I expected it to be. It showed your_email@bellsouth.net in the username block. There were instructions on this page that specifically mentioned BellSouth. When I would go to the Netopia modem home page, clicking on Expert Mode would not get me out of Basic Mode. The modem was crippled in that none of the expert features could be accessed or changed from the Netopia modem web page. A Bellsouth user could only enter his or her username and password, and then only access the features available in basic mode. It was impossible for a user to change any configuration of the modem without using hyperterminal or telnet. I guess BellSouth did not want people to have the ability to screw up the settings, so they preconfigured it so customers could only enter their username and passwords. I can see how this would possibly prevent calls to customer service from people who did not know what they were doing from changing the VPI, or VCI, or other setting that might disable the modem. While the modem was in this state, the Netopia modem web page interface looked liked some of the screen shots in your first link.
After I accessed the modem using Hyperterminal and turned Autoconfig off and then restarted the modem, the screen where the username and password is entered no longer made any reference to Bellsouth, and the username box was empty. I was also able to access Expert Mode from Basic Mode and the interface again looked like the classic Netopia modem interface as is shown in screen shots your second link. In a nutshell, by turning off autoconfig, it returned the modem to the classic Netopia interface where all of the expert features were accessible. |
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