[Soekris] comBIOS update failure; connected but can't upload. help?

[David Courtney]

> question why do you set yours at naudrate=9600, rather than the
> 'default' of 19200?
>

I forgot the Soekris boxes defaulted to 19200.  I use 9600 because
it's the default rate used by FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and the various Linux
distributions.  So when I install the OS, it's one less thing to mess
with.

> following your instructions (very nicely written, btw!), on minicom
> send ... just nothing happens, and the "download -" eventually times
> out.
>
> thoughts?
>

Did your distribution install lrzsz with minicom?  If not, you don't
have the external you need.