[Elphel-support] initial issues with a new elphel camera

[Ákos Maróy]

Stefan,

> It might be a faulty motherboard. If you have a 353 without
> extensionboard (SATA). You can verify this by opening the back side. And
> pull down the right corner of the board a bit. (Take the usual anti
> static measures etc.)
> 
> If the board does boot then. It is almost certain that the Axis
> processor has a loose corner. Anyway, it is a good thing to make a
> ticket with S/N etc.

thanks for the tip. I disassembled the thing, and physically it all
seems normal. now the lights are also blinking when I plug it in - but I
can't ping the device via the default IP address of 192.168.0.9. my
laptop's IP address settings seem to be OK:

$ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:9e:d4:45:3b
          inet addr:192.168.0.20  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:9eff:fed4:453b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:73923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:25
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:11700 (11.7 KB)  TX bytes:1798451 (1.7 MB)
          Interrupt:34


$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0
wlan0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0
wlan0
0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
wlan0



and I haven't reconfigured the IP address of the camera when I used it
on Friday for the first time.

what could be wrong? is there any way to track the boot process of the
camera? maybe it's somehow corrupted? is there a way to do a factory
default reset?


I also tried an nmap run to find the camera if it has a different IP
address on the same subnet, but only my laptop comes up:

$ nmap  192.168.0.9/24

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-10-31 12:34 CET
Interesting ports on 192.168.0.20:
Not shown: 999 closed ports
PORT   STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open  ssh

Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (1 host up) scanned in 3.27 seconds


I also tried to set a netmask of 255.255.0.0 for the eth0 interface and
do wider nmap run, but still the camera wasn't found :(


Akos