NW-E003 Firmware upgrade via VMWare on Linux

[tomk]

N.B. Title and contents of this post have been edited to correct a typo. Answers below from finalcoolman and stuge are for my original, wrong, version.

My wife got a present of a NW-E003, which she was delighted with - unaware that it was not exactly Linux-friendly (we don't have any Windows boxes in our house). So I got it going by setting up a VMWare/Win2K virtual machine on my Linux laptop, installing Sonic Stage on that, and configuring the virtual network to access mp3s on my NFS server. Everything's fine so far.

Now, I've been reading up on the 2.0 firmware version, and I'm thinking the upgrade should work over the same setup, but I'd like to ask the experts here - does the fw upgrade process use any different/unusual/non-standard methods to access the player? I would like to establish, if possible, if this is going to work on this kind of emulated setup, before I try it - the principal objective being not to fry my wife's current favourite thing.

Edited July 23, 2006 by tomk

[finalcoolman]

I don't think you will have to worry about this because no firmware updates exist for the NW-E307 in the first place:D I am not even sure if the NW-E3xx series even uses EEPROM which is required in order to have updatable firmware.

[Guest Stuge]

My wife got a present of a NW-E300, which she was delighted with - unaware that it was not exactly Linux-friendly (we don't have any Windows boxes in our house). So I got it going by setting up a VMWare/Win2K virtual machine on my Linux laptop, installing Sonic Stage on that, and configuring the virtual network to access mp3s on my NFS server. Everything's fine so far.

Now, I've been reading up on the 2.0 firmware version, and I'm thinking the upgrade should work over the same setup, but I'd like to ask the experts here - does the fw upgrade process use any different/unusual/non-standard methods to access the player? I would like to establish, if possible, if this is going to work on this kind of emulated setup, before I try it - the principal objective being not to fry my wife's current favourite thing.

Welcome to AtracLife !

As said by Finalcoolman ,You don`t need to worry abt it b`coz there are no firmware upgrades for E3xx series yet .

[tomk]

Thanks for the replies, and the welcome, Stuge.

there are no firmware upgrades for E3xx series yet .

Sorry - typo. It's a NW-E003, not E300.

Edited July 23, 2006 by tomk