Help please, my DM 500S came today. I have connected to my sky dish. And connected ethernet to the modem. Also connected the null modem. Followed instructions on the Dreambox for Newbie pdf. But nothing happens. Any ideas people.
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what exactly are you trying to do??, flash image or other?? -
All of wat you said smoggie. I'm following the Newbie guide step by step.Comment
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Hey there, sorry for my ignorance. I've connected to my sky dish. And it finds the satellite signal. But it displays the msg reading "cannot detect" or somit like that. But I wanted to flash and image anyway. As my box was bought used. So I wanted to start from the beginning. So as follows, I connected the ethernet from the router to the box. Then the null cable from the box to my laptop. I then proceeded with dreamup. As instructed on screen. I selected my port clicked connect. It then displays a msg "turn on dreambox". But nothing happens e.g. the bar which imagine turns green. When it acknowledges the dreambox. I hope I have been more specific. And would greatly appreciate your help.Comment
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could try different com port, also are you using usb adaptor on rs232 lead, this maybe the issue, are the right drivers installed.
for now you could flash with flashwizard pro, takes just over a minute. but you still need to find the issue on dreamup for future, just incase box goes tits upComment
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I will try what you said with the diff com port. And yes I was using the usb adapter on rs232. When the rs232 lead is connected to my it did state a msg on my laptop that it was connected. After installing the drivers But now it does not state anything. So may have to find a diff driver. I think you said about flashwizard in another post of mine. So where do I find and also if I need another driver for my usb lead. What would the correct name be for it.Comment
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easy way to flash an image, which is an img file (.img) using just the ethernet lead
use dreambox control centre and connect to your box. Once connected select the ftp in the bottom left hand of programme Programme is split into like 2 screens, in LH screen select the tmp folder. In the RH screen browse to your image and transfer this to the temp folder.
Once image is transferred, select the telnet tab in bottom left hand of programme and enter this
cd /tmp && eraseall /dev/mtd/3 && cp backup.img /dev/mtd/3 && reboot
and press enter, leave it for a couple of mins to flash and reboot
The only time you need to use a null modem cable is if your box is non responsive to a bad flashLast edited by smoggie; 19 September, 2012, 21:43.Comment
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That sounds easy enough smoggie. But then again its me
. Will give a try tomoz thanks pal.
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Its pretty easy, other way is to follow what I said up until putting img file in the tmp folder. You then rename the image you transferred into the temp folder to root.cramfs And then using remote scroll through to manual software update and press Ok to flash the image.
Telnet is what I prefer as I have never had a bad flash using it. If you get stuck I will help on teamviewer.Comment
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dreambox dm900c cannot see.pl help.thankyou.Comment
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A couple of important points to make clear, before anyone tries this method:
1) The binary eraseall needs to be present in the image. Some images don't have it, so the telnet flash command will fall at the first hurdle. But no damage done, thanks to && which means only do the next command if the previous one was successful ...
2) But most importantly - the command is looking for a specific filename for the image, backup.img
So you MUST ensure that you FTP your backup image (whatever it is called) to /tmp 'AS' backup.img
Otherwise, if the eraseall bit was successful, but the image is not found, that's it! Empty flash chip, and it's DreamUp time anyway!!!
Cheers- AL
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