On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:45:04PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote: > 2008/1/8, Salvatore Iovene <salvatore.iovene@googlemail.com>: > > I booted it up with no HD inside, the FW was 2.1.0. Silly me, I decided > > that I didn't need to upgrade to 2.1.5 to have an IP address in RedBoot, > > > > Is there anything left to do or do I just have to start soldering? > > You can still talk to redboot via the serial port. If, like mine, the > serial port connector was not supplied you can still use it without > soldering if you wrench 3 serial port-type square gold pins off a dead > motherboard, clean them up and poke the soldery ends into pins 2, 3 > and 5 of the right type of DB9-to-2x5 connector: the sort where the > wires are awkwardly crossed over inside the plug shell so that pins > numbered 1-9 go to pins 1-9. You can then fit this into the serial > connector holes on the HD connector riser board without having to > solder anything. > > Good luck! Hi, and thanks for the answer. After all everything turned out to be fine. It seems that the Thecus leased a DHCP address after all, and I just insisted on probin 192.168.1.100. :) Now I'm in the middle of the installation. -- Salvatore Iovene http://www.iovene.com/
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