[Soekris] Problem upgrading 5501 firmware

[K K]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Zlatko Ignjatovic <klaja at intertalk.com> wrote:
> I cannot upgrade it to 1.33, when I issue "download" in monitor, CCCCC
> letters start showing in the monitor (as they should), but when I try to
> upload the 1.33 image, the process is immediately stopped.

I had this exact problem, tried two different terminal emulators, no luck.

What worked for me was to put <space><hyphen> after the command, as
documented in the changelog -- you type 'download -' instead of just
'download', this switches behavior back to the old checksum routine.

Kevin