On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Steven Hicks wrote: > Why is the H3 marked as having flash on the wiki?
There are 2 different types of Hauppauge MediaMVP: 1. The older models which have a very small quantity of flash memory used to store a couple of configuration parameters (eg whether the device is PAL or NTSC). This network boot. 2. The newer models currently on sale, some of which are wireless capable. These have a much larger flash memory area which contains a copy of the original hauppauge firmware. This firmware contacts a hauppauge server and requests what the version of the firmware available on the server is. If it finds a newer firmware it network boots off that, otherwise it continues booting the firmware in the flash memory. The main reason for having firmware in the flash memory in the newer devices is to allow the wireless networking to be configured. For the wired model it has very few advantages, and is probably included simply to allow hauppage to use the same PCB/board layout for the wired and wireless model. The reason that the description is there on the wiki is because the 2 different types of model require different server-side setups to get them to network boot, and "Flash" vs "Non-Flash" is an easy way to describe that. Cheers, Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
