I got it to update ok the other night. I just used cu and sz on a Linux box, as it is written up in the wiki page. I don't know why it didn't work the other day. I think maybe I ended up pressing another key before I started the xmodem transfer, which corrupted what uManager received. That doesn't explain why minicom couldn't do it.. presumably when I'm pressing minicom hotkeys and navigating menus, it isn't sending those keys to the 6501.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Matt Thrailkill <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night I stayed up fairly late trying the wiki instructions with > cu and sz. Tried over a real serial port also (was using usb<->serial > at first.) > > Using uManager's download command also, since the instructions said > comBios's update code wasn't quite working in my version. > > When I was using minicom, I was set to the correct serial settings as > far as I could tell and asking for an xmodem transfer seemed to be > invoking a program whose name I can't recall right now, although I > could not tell whether or not it was using CRC. > > I'm at work again now, but I plan to look at it later tonight. > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Karl Auerbach <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/07/2011 10:52 AM, Karl Auerbach wrote: >> >>> I have successfully updated (and downdated) the Net6501 bios (several >>> times) from a Fedora 14 Linux box using "cu" with the xmodem helper >>> "sx", exactly as described in http://wiki.soekris.info/Updating_Bios >> >> I meant "sz". >> >> --karl-- >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
