John Todd wrote.... > For those of you wanting to salvage your Cisco ATA-186 after > inadvertent locking, or after recovering your devices from a vendor > who has locked them, here is a rainy-day project for you: > somedoc.pdf..... Immediately strides to ATA, rips off cover... woohoo, EEPROM is socketed.... well maybe I'll just copy the contents of a working ATA into the programmer, and reflash the locked one, taking care to change the MAC address and serial number...... > Please aim your negative karma at Cisco for creating a piece of > hardware that can be rendered useless with software. This is against > all previous ideology of Cisco, and is a disturbing trend. > > JT Amen to that... -- \_ Roger De Salis rdesalis at fx dot net dot nz </' FX Networks +64 21 481 452 /) Wellington, New Zealand roger at desalis dot gen dot nz (/ ` Bentley win Le Mans! - What next, English win cricket in Aus?
> Immediately strides to ATA, rips off cover... woohoo, EEPROM is > socketed.... well maybe I'll just copy the contents of a working > ATA into the programmer, and reflash the locked one, taking care > to change the MAC address and serial number......As far as i know most of Cisco equipment built on QNX Neutrino RTOS I think it will not be so easy Probably there is another eeprom (mostly with serial interface) or some sort of NVRAM (dallas, simtek ... ) with MAC, Serial settings and so on. (Most equipment i've seen built in this way)
Roger De Salis wrote:> > > Immediately strides to ATA, rips off cover... woohoo, EEPROM is > socketed.... well maybe I'll just copy the contents of a working > ATA into the programmer, and reflash the locked one, taking care > to change the MAC address and serial number......Keep us posted, please. Really our karmic outrage should be vented equally at Cisco and at Vonage, which is the progenitor of the password locking scheme. Vonage will get extra eons in Hades for their misleading advertising, which until recently gave their customers the illusion that they were being given the ATA186 as part of their purchasing the service. IMO anyone who purposely designs a scheme to render perfectly good hardware useless deserves to see their user base transfer en masse to NuFone. . . B.