How long does it take to flash a DreamBox 800

[alyamani]

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when the DM800 boots up the display screen will indicate both the sim and bootloader that are on it currently

Sorry for the delay, I went to the shop.
My machine does not reach that point, it boots and immediately show '/flash/vmlinux.gz' on its LCD display.

[alyamani]

When the box boots it will tell you on the oled display, if that don't show up take the cover off and locate the sim card. Only a few screws, Andy.

I think I will have to remove the cover to check, because my machine only display '/flash/vmlinux.gz' on the LCD and that's the furthest it reach. Thanks Andy

[digicon]

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Sorry for the delay, I went to the shop.
My machine does not reach that point, it boots and immediately show '/flash/vmlinux.gz' on its LCD display.

It may have a label on it somewhere then that tells you what Sim is inside

[alyamani]

It has a label but only has S/N and Mac number.
Thanks Andy for all the help, I feel I am being a pain in the backside.
I tried nearly every trick I could find in the past three or four days. The way everyone explains the solution looks so simple, but I have lost a stone trying to understand why I can't put them into practice.>>>>>> '' It's either I am too dumb to understand, or the box is dead '' I feel the first is appropriate.

[Elric]

sounds like my box
see my thread about it

Sent from 2 tin cans and some string

[alyamani]

sounds like my box
see my thread about it

Sent from 2 tin cans and some string

Thanks Elric, I will have a look at your thread about what happend to your box.

[Elric]

my thread is here >>> http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...1/#post2014718

ive tried differant sims,another dm800 and so on,still no change,its all boxed up waiting to go back
to DMM germany

[southpaw]

do you have it hard wired to router ? not homeplugs, had a similar issue and turned out to be homeplugs wouldn't allow the "traffic" to the dreambox

[alyamani]

my thread is here >>> http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...1/#post2014718

ive tried differant sims,another dm800 and so on,still no change,its all boxed up waiting to go back
to DMM germany

I don't blame you ! although I still feel they are onw of the best around and not bulky.

[alyamani]

do you have it hard wired to router ? not homeplugs, had a similar issue and turned out to be homeplugs wouldn't allow the "traffic" to the dreambox

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This is a new one ! I've been reading a lot lately, I will read about hard wired routers.

[cobra1423]

hi alyamani
ok first make sure you have Ethernet cable plugged into router and the other end into the dreambox then
push the silver power button holding it down while plugging in the power cable at the back and if the display shows you ***STOP*** an IP address something like this 192.168.1.12 you are good to go simply start your web browser ie; Google chrome or Internet Explorer go to http:// and clear it now just put in the ip address showing on the front of your dreambox and hit enter you should get something like this

DM800 second stage loader #84 (2011-09-02)


If you see this, your Dreambox didn't boot the Linux kernel. Unless you interrupted the boot process, this usually means that your Dreambox doesn't have a valid operating system installed.
Don't worry! It's not a problem. You can just flash a new version and everything will be fine!
Otherwise, you can boot from network or USB.
If you're about to give up, you might get help at the Dream Multimedia Support board!
You can download the current flash content, but please don't expect to be able to flash it back. It's merely a debugging feature.

• Device information
• Firmware upgrade

now click on device information and let me know that info plus what it says at the top like this DM800 second stage loader #84 (2011-09-02) then we can take it from there.