Good afternoon:
I've been lurking and occasional question-asking in these forums for about 5 years while toying with my Dockstar. I think this is the right place to post this, but am happy to move it if it belongs elsewhere. Wasn't completely sure if this belonged in "uBoot" or :Rescue" or "Debian"...
I recently had a USB stick on the Dockstar fail, and upon attempting replacements I have been bedeviled by the device's inability to grab an IP from my router. I have had this problem in the past and have gotten around it mostly from trial and error, but this time I am stuck.
The Dockstar is running Jeff's Rescue, v2 I believe:
My notes indicate that I am running the 2014-07 Kirkwood version of the U-Boot. But, I don't know what to do to verify that.
If I restart the Dockstar without a USB stick in place, the Dockstar happily grabs an IP from my router. Example:
(I used to assign a persistent IP to the device via the MAC address. I've turned that off for now just letting DHCP do its thing in case the MAC-based reservation was causing a problem. I see no difference)
However, if I insert a USB stick -- any USB stick (I have tried 3 or 4), the device will not request (or, is not offered) an IP from my router.
The USB sticks in question usually have an Asterisk PBX system on them. Most recently I had been running the PogoPlug Mobile image from Nerdvittles, and have been doing so for more than a year without troubles. But I have also used full Debian OS sticks. And, since this problem cropped up I have tried other images -- someone on this forum linked to a Github image so I tried that one:
"Debian-jessie-3.18.5-pogoplug-v4-20151110-disk-image.4GB.img"
Nope; that won't boot/receive an IP either.
I'd love some suggestions regarding how to trouble-shoot this or get past this. I'm quite a novice, even after having tinkered with Debian on my Dockstar for 5 years. But I follow directions well if I understand them... :)
Brian
I've been lurking and occasional question-asking in these forums for about 5 years while toying with my Dockstar. I think this is the right place to post this, but am happy to move it if it belongs elsewhere. Wasn't completely sure if this belonged in "uBoot" or :Rescue" or "Debian"...
I recently had a USB stick on the Dockstar fail, and upon attempting replacements I have been bedeviled by the device's inability to grab an IP from my router. I have had this problem in the past and have gotten around it mostly from trial and error, but this time I am stuck.
The Dockstar is running Jeff's Rescue, v2 I believe:
rescue:~# cat /etc/issue Jeff Doozan's Dockstar/Pogoplug Recovery System rescue:~# uname -a Linux rescue 2.6.32.18-dockstar #1 Thu Feb 17 03:09:57 EST 2011 armv5tel GNU/Linux
My notes indicate that I am running the 2014-07 Kirkwood version of the U-Boot. But, I don't know what to do to verify that.
If I restart the Dockstar without a USB stick in place, the Dockstar happily grabs an IP from my router. Example:
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:45:27 received DISCOVER from 00:10:75:1a:XX:YY Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:45:28 sending OFFER to 255.255.255.255 with 192.168.2.183 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:45:28 received REQUEST from 00:10:75:1a:XX:YY Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:45:28 sending ACK to 192.168.2.183
(I used to assign a persistent IP to the device via the MAC address. I've turned that off for now just letting DHCP do its thing in case the MAC-based reservation was causing a problem. I see no difference)
However, if I insert a USB stick -- any USB stick (I have tried 3 or 4), the device will not request (or, is not offered) an IP from my router.
The USB sticks in question usually have an Asterisk PBX system on them. Most recently I had been running the PogoPlug Mobile image from Nerdvittles, and have been doing so for more than a year without troubles. But I have also used full Debian OS sticks. And, since this problem cropped up I have tried other images -- someone on this forum linked to a Github image so I tried that one:
"Debian-jessie-3.18.5-pogoplug-v4-20151110-disk-image.4GB.img"
Nope; that won't boot/receive an IP either.
I'd love some suggestions regarding how to trouble-shoot this or get past this. I'm quite a novice, even after having tinkered with Debian on my Dockstar for 5 years. But I follow directions well if I understand them... :)
Brian