I was a pineapple virgin until yesterday (and still haven't really gone
all the way).
I unpacked my new pineapple.
Followed the First Boot Setup.
Connected to ethernet port.
Set the password.
After "Continue" appeared,
supplied the password,
answered by the fruit with "Invalid username / password".
Followed the Factory Reset procedure ( up-down-down-up-up ).
Seemed to be successful.
Followed the First Boot Setup.
exactly the same result as first time.
Tried Web Recovery Interface ( up-up-up-up-down ).
(Suspect problems: not a normal-seeming boot sequence.
LEDs went to solid green and solid red in just a few seconds.)
Connected to ethernet port.
No DHCP response.
Configured computer as 172.16.42.42/24, gateway: 172.16.42.1
No response browsing to http://172.16.42.1 or http://172.16.42.1:1471
Configured computer as 192.168.1.2/24, gateway: 192.168.1.1
No response browsing to http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.1.1:1471
Tried Recovery Stager ( up-down-down-down-up ).
(Seemed like reasonable time for POST and self-test.)
Computer: 172.16.42.42.
http://172.16.42.1 goes to ~/redirect.php, but no further.
Browser responds at http://172.16.42.1:1471 with previously seen login page.
Once again, "Invalid username / password".
I'm speculating that the MicroSD image might have a problem,
so I'm about to fetch the current firmware and try putting it on
another MicroSD.
All suggestions are welcome.
Is there something else I should know about?
Thanks in advance.