known problems - ZyXel 1496E V6.17?

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sun, 20 Apr 1997 19:05:21 +0200


Hi,

Stefan Schober wrote:
> are there any known problems in firmware V6.17M for ZyXel 1496E-Modems? 

Hummm, I don't know any, but then, I didn't know that 6.17 was out on the
market either. Do you have release notes for 6.17?

> I replaced my
> Eproms (V6.13) with Version 6.17 and found my modem unable to send faxes.

No good.

> As I need it, I didn't look any further, instead I just replaced the 
> EProms and reinstalled V6.13, which worked fine so far.
> 
> So the question is - are there new bugs in V6.17, or is a 150ns-Eprom just=
> a bit too
> slow for my modem?

The "E" models need 120ns, the "E+" need 100ns Eproms. It *might* work
with 150's, but they are error-prone.

gert

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