On 12/19/2010 4:38 AM, tonjg wrote:
>
> as an update I'm still having this problem and there are some things I've
> tried but not worked.
> 1) I booted the slug and watched the traffic its trafic in wireshark. Each
> time it boots it sends out three dhcp discovery pings (then the device beeps
> 3 times) but it never picks up an address. Other devices connected to my
> router have no problem picking up an address. This slug worked perfectly on
> the network before the flash upgrade.
Do you see replies to the DCHP requests? Can you post the traffic that
you do see, so we can try to help?
> 2) I tried the 'all upgrade utility' thing but it caused havoc on three out
> of four windows pc's and when it did finally run it couldn't find the slug.
Not sure what you mean by that utility -- is that the sercomm upgrade
utility -- the one that you are sternly warned NOT to use in the wiki?
Just a reminder to the list -- the use of that utility is highly
dangerous, as it erases the NSLU2 bootloader along with everything else
-- if anything at all goes wrong with the flash, it will leave you with
a totally useless NSLU2, one that can be recovered only by soldering
JTAG wires to the circuit board and reloading firmware using JTAG.
But anyway, the fact that it can't find the NSLU2 indicates that either
you have network problems (bad cable? bad port on a switch or router?
are your hosts and the NSLU2 on the same side of a routed network
segment?), or that you weren't in upgrade mode to begin with -- the wiki
article on how to enter upgrade mode using the reset button is the one
you need, and pay close attention to the timing and led color notes on
that page; it is very easy to miss the fraction of a second window you
need in order to be successful.
> 3) I then tried upslug2 from a linux pc but that can't find the slug either.
> I'm running out of ideas so any help appreciated.
You might let us know (by posting URLs so that there is no ambiguity)
which wiki articles you are following or trying, and provide detailed
information (cut and paste log files, etc) with the results. There's a
lot of information on the wiki, some of which is obsolete and
non-helpful, some of which might be for other firmwares and non-helpful
to you, and some of which (sadly, but reality for any open wiki) is just
plain wrong.
-Mike (mwester)
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