[ale] kuro-box pro

Greg Clifton gccfof5 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 13:41:00 EST 2011


Charles,

If the box has a CMOS battery to hold RTC/configuration info, you might try
removing the battery/clearing the CMOS. I have seen this help with
motherboards that wouldn't act right.
GC

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ouch dang it.  Seems like this one is a brick.
>
> I let it sit for 30 minutes and watched the LINK/ACT light go from
> flickering to steady ( I presume lookin' for a dhcp server and
> failing, then falling back to the default static address of
> 192.168.11.150).  Then I plugged its ethernet port up to my IBM
> Thinkpad 600x running Ubuntu 9.10  and set my ethernet device to an
> address of "192.168.11.17".  I then ran "route -n" and verified that
> the default route was "192.168.11.0".   ping(1) never got any packets
> back, and telnet(1) reports that the port is closed.  When I try to
> ping(1) a random address (e.g. "192.168.11.88") I get the proper
> "Destination host unreachable" error.
>
> So I ran nmap(1) against it  ("nmap -n 192.168.11.150").  nmap(1)
> reports the correct MAC address (as printed on the bottom of the
> machine), but says that every single port of the 1,000 it tried is
> filtered. According to nmap(1)'s documentation, this means that the
> packet it sent to that port was dropped.  Pressing the <reset> button
> on the back of the box had no effect on this behavior.  Restarting
> with the reset pin held down gives me a series of tones (presumably
> complaining about the reset pin) but also no change in behavior.
>
> Short of breakin' out the soldering iron and trying to contact the
> UART on the board, I am a little out of ideas here.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Raylynn Knight <seca900rider at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I had no problem pinning the Kurobix once it finished it's startup.  It
> takes several minutes from bootup before it responds.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm.  I tried ping(1) but didn't get anything.  Maybe that just means
> >> it won' respond to ping(1) though. Thanks for the tip!
> >>
> >> -- CHS
> >>
> >
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