[Soekris] net5501 Bios update procedure

[Marco A. Calamari]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:59 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 11:48 AM 10/11/2007, Ryan L. Faircloth wrote:
> >I am attempting to update one of these units that currently runs 
> >1.31. Using Hypercom the transfer appears to work
> 
> Hypercom should work, but try and do it with cu and lsx just in case 
> there is some strange issue with hypercom. I have done a half dozen 
> with cu and lsx this past week and one just a few min ago. I have 
> done the updates at 9600 and 19200. What speed are you using ?

My flash update via minicom worked flawlessy the first
 time I followed Matteo's (thanks!) suggestion to use
 "download -" and not "download" as remote command.

HTH.   Marco

> 
> On FreeBSD
> cu -s19200 -l /dev/cuad1
>  >download
> 
> Then ~C
> lsx /tmp/b5501_132i.bin
> 
> 
> Also is the image you are working with correct ?
> 
> [zoo]# md5 b5501_132i.bin
> MD5 (b5501_132i.bin) = de069c09556a9feda7ada9acc6f45698
> [zoo]#
> 
>          ---Mike
> 
> 
> > > download
> >
> >Start sending file using XMODEM/CRC protocol.
> >CCCCCC
> >File downloaded succesfully, size 784 Blocks.
> >
> >However the flashupdate command gives a generic error. Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > > flashupdate
> >Updating BIOS Flash
> >Error Erasing Flash.

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