napisani Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 I bought a usb to serial adapter and I have got putty connected through the usb COM I ran the following command to try to debrick it but It keeps getting stuck at erasing memory. Is there a way to upload new firmware and install it through the usb com port? PHY ID is 0022:5521 ... waiting for BOOTP information Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:18:84:28:c6:54 Can't get BOOTP info for device! RedBoot bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM] Non-certified release, version v1.3.0 - built 16:57:58, Aug 7 2006 Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc. Board: ap51 RAM: 0x80000000-0x81000000, [0x80040450-0x80fe1000] available FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each. RedBoot> fconfig -i Initialize non-volatile configuration - continue (y/n)? y Run script at boot: false Use BOOTP for network configuration: true Default server IP address: 192.168.1.254 Console baud rate: 9600 GDB connection port: 9000 Force console for special debug messages: false Network debug at boot time: false Update RedBoot non-volatile configuration - continue (y/n)? y ... Erase from 0xa87e0000-0xa87f0000: Stays here for ever! any help would be appreciated Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostshell Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 yes there is, i have the guide somewhere, ill find it and post it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostshell Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 you are going to want to use hyper terminal or ah i cant remember the other app to transfer the files using x and y modem protocol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostshell Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 while i am looking try hyper terminal instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostshell Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 ha! found what i used, try this: http://wiki-robin.meshroot.com/Howto/Install/Flashing_La_Fonera_over_Serial_Port Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napisani Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share Posted November 8, 2011 Thanks so much, I think this will help. I will give it a shot and post my results. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napisani Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 I get to the point in the tutorial where it has you run the following command fis init -f this command just causes the following output About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y *** Initialize FLASH Image System ... Erase from 0xa8030000-0xa87e0000: then it just hangs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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