[Elphel-support] LiveDVD, Firmware upgrades, etc

[Sebastian Pichelhofer]

The easiest and fasted way to update at cameras firmware is using the
Firmware Upgrade dialog in the system preferences, you only need to
set up an NFS server first and place the latest image from sourceforge
in the NFS directory.

Though this dialog is also a new addition that came with a not too old
software update so if your current firmware is too old you might not
have that option.

Have you checked:
http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=353_firmware_upgrade_procedure
yet?

Regards Sebastian

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Oleg <andersonnotgood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Felix,
>
> Unfortunately I don't know what firmware version you've got. What does
> "/etc/issue" say?
>
>> Which way is currently recommended to update the firmware?
>
> Prod353 is quite reliable.
>
>> After that I tried using Prod353, but it seems that the instructions at
>> http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Prod353 are out of date - the
>> commands provided seem to be in the wrong directory, and even after
>> running ./install_elphel the files "etraxfsboot" and "cmdline" are not
>> to be found where they are supposed to be.
>
> Yes, that page is outdated a little and also is missing some information.
> I'll update it.
>
> "etraxfsboot" and "cmdline" - for these files you need to install CRIS gcc
> compiler - see instructions
> Then configure NFS and build the firmware. If you have any errors or missing
> packages please check Elphel Software Kit for Ubuntu
>
> After that Prod353 should be installed without a problem.
>
> Oleg
>
>
> On 31 March 2010 01:50, Felix Schill <felix.schill at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an Elphel 353 which was bought a year or two ago. The camera
>> works through the web interface, but not with mplayer (connection
>> refused).
>> I am trying to update the firmware and start testing it. I spend quite
>> some time reading the wiki and everything I could find but I'm having no
>> success. My questions:
>>
>> - Which way is currently recommended to update the firmware?
>>
>> - Where can I find the LiveDVD 2.0 ? I only found the tar package on
>> SourceForge. I followed the instructions in the README provided, trying
>> to compile it with  the KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso image as
>> recommended, but it produces errors. I tried patching whatever I could
>> guess from the error messages but it keeps running into more errors.
>> The current error I get is:
>> [...]
>>
>> + test -n 'UCSRC5/new/*'
>> + test -L 'UCSRC5/new/*' -o -e 'UCSRC5/new/*'
>> + insmod cloop
>> + true
>> + test -e SRC/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX5
>> + continue
>> + read verison j
>> ./livecd-make: line 204: UCSRC/new/etc/knoppix-version: No such file or
>> directory
>> WAS ERRORS! See report in livecd-make.log
>>
>>
>> Isn't there a complete image somewhere, like for version 1.5? The
>> concept of a LiveDVD is great but not if you have to struggle to build
>> it yourself.
>> I also tried the version 1.5 (the iso image from SourceForge). It loads
>> the kernel but then bails claiming that it can't find the Knoppix file
>> system. I'm running a Dell Optiplex on Ubuntu 9.04. Maybe it doesn't
>> recognise my CD-ROM?
>>
>> After that I tried using Prod353, but it seems that the instructions at
>> http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Prod353  are  out of date - the
>> commands provided seem to be in the wrong directory, and even after
>> running ./install_elphel the files "etraxfsboot" and "cmdline" are not
>> to be found where they are supposed to be.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Felix
>>
>>
>>
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