Re: upslug2 hanging, indicating "timeout occurred"

[Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I'm having difficulty flashing an image with my NSLU2.
> 
> When i try to send an image to it with upslug2, it works fine durin
> gthe "erasing" step, but as soon as it tries to write data, it shows a
> leading first character in the status line of "*", which appears to
> mean "timeout occurred".  It doesn't seem to ever write any data at
> all (the number before the + always stays at 0).
...
> Any suggestions?  What should i look for as my next step toward
> recovering this machine?

What's between the PC and the NSLU2?  Any routers or s/w firewalls
which might be filtering the non-IP ethernet protocol that the NSLU2's
upgrade mode uses?

-- Rod