NCID will run on a model A RPi. One of the RPi's I used when getting LCDncid running on the RPi was a model A. With that said, I have not done any long term testing on the model A; a model B has been sitting in a closet running NCID for months unattended except for occasional apt-get updates.
If you need to update the base firmware of an RPi without reinstalling the OS (if I recall, a fresh install of the newer Raspbian/NOOBS distributions is supposed to update the firmware), you can just:
sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot
Come to think of it, a firmware update got rid of strange errors I had trying to mount a windows share. Not sure that it would help your modem issues, but it certainly shouldn't hurt. Good luck on your debug efforts.
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NCID will run on a model A RPi. One of the RPi's I used when getting LCDncid running on the RPi was a model A. With that said, I have not done any long term testing on the model A; a model B has been sitting in a closet running NCID for months unattended except for occasional apt-get updates.
If you need to update the base firmware of an RPi without reinstalling the OS (if I recall, a fresh install of the newer Raspbian/NOOBS distributions is supposed to update the firmware), you can just:
Come to think of it, a firmware update got rid of strange errors I had trying to mount a windows share. Not sure that it would help your modem issues, but it certainly shouldn't hurt. Good luck on your debug efforts.