Updating Option Globesurfer III Using Telnet Command Line Interface (CLI)
Using your favorite telnet program login to the Option globesurfer 3's command line interface. For windows XP users you can use the command prompt.
Run -> Start -> type 'cmd' (a black command window appears)
telnet 192.168.1.1
- the user id and password are both 'admin' by default unless you have previously changed the pwd - if you login successfully you should get a 'Globesurfer >' prompt In general as with any command line interface to any device you can type 'help [command]' to learn more about a specific command. If you don't know the commands just type 'help' and it will give you an error together with all the help options available.
If you type this it tells you help must have at least one command then gives you the following commands
Availble help Categories
help lcd - show help about lcd commands
help callctrl - show help about Callctrl and slic related commands.
help conf - show help about Read and write GlobeSurfer configuration data
help upnp - show help about UPnP commands
help bridge - show help about API for managing ethernet bridge
help config - show help about API for configuring devices
help firewall - show help about Control and display Firewall and NAT data
help connection - show help about API for managing connections
help inet_connection - show help about API for managing internet connections
help wireless - show help about Wireless commands
help 802.1x - show help about 802.1x Port based authentication commands
help misc - show help about API for GlobeSurfer miscellaneous tasks
help firmware_update - show help about Firmware update commands
help log - show help about Controls GlobeSurfer logging behavior
help dev - show help about Device related commands
help kernel - show help about Kernel related commands
help system - show help about Commands to control GlobeSurfer execution
help flash - show help about Flash and loader related commands
help net - show help about Network related commands
help misc - show help about miscellaneous commands
help modem - show help about commands related to the cellular modem
help nvram - show help about commands to manipulate the NVRAM
help cmd - show help about Commands related to the Command module
Returned -1 Digging deeper you can find exactly what firmware_update command does thus:
GlobeSurfer> help firmware_update
Command Category firmware_update - Firmware update commands
start Remotely upgrade GlobeSurfer
cancel Kill running remote upgrade
exit Exit sub menu
help Show help for commands within this menu
Returned 0 To get more help with the "firmware_update" command enter the command:
GlobeSurfer>firmware_update Notice that this changes the prompt now to show the current command being run. Then type 'help start' from within the command
firmware_update> help start
start Remotely upgrade GlobeSurfer
Usage: start -u <update_url> [-c] [-i]
-c: Check only - don't really flash
-i: Ignore version number when deciding whether to burn the image
Returned 0 So in summary this should help you figure out any command line command available for the gs3 and indeed for any device that has a CLI.
To answer your questions specifically you need to do:
GlobeSurfer> firmware_update start -u <update_url> -i The <update_url> unfortunately is password protected at the
Option website