If your CS3 is connected to the internet by an ethernet cable why did you have to do a forced update? I updated my CS3+ which is connected to the internet without my MS2 connected and a couple of days later connected the MS2 and turned on the CS3 and it showed an update for the MS2. Is your CS3 showing both MS connected?

Problem resolved. First I figured out to update the MS WLAN controller without the CS3. Simply go to the ip address of the MS WLAN in a browser window. A screen pops up and you can select “Firmware update”. So I am at the current software version now and the CS3 reflects that version correctly.

Next afterI got the MS WAN updated without using the CS3, I kept playing with the settings on the CS3. I selected the "system" settings (even though there was no red dot showing) and went down and clicked on the "Device and Software Information" tab. It brough up all the info on the CS3 including hardware version, software version etc. At the top of the page, I clicked on the CS3 icon and it brought up a download icon on the right side of the page. I clicked that and it searched online and came back and told me there were 6 updates available for the CS3 and the date of those updates (see below);

lokicons 8-21-2025
spieleweit 8-29-2025
busgerate 8-26-20256
decoder 7-21-2025
bilder 12-15-2022
ansgen 12-15-2021

(interesting to note that two of the updates were dated from 2022 and 2021)

So I clicked on the START button to update the CS3. It took about 6 minutes to download everything and install it. Then I clicked OK button and the CS3 rebooted. As soon as it came up I had a red dot showing on the system icon and it was for the MS2 update. Went ahead and did the update for the MS2 which is now at version 5.3.

Not sure why it took all of this to get everything updated but I am glad it is done. I had no idea that there were any updates for my CS3 that was already at 2.5.2(6) but there were six of them.