Tom Metro wrote:
> To diagnose why the dongle.bin.config isn't loading you should try:
>
> Checking your server logs for the TFTP server. You may need to increase
> the logging level of your TFTP service.
Try as I might, I still haven't found a log file from tftp! This is even
with several "-v" on the command line :-( Maybe I'll try to download a
source package from Fedora and try to find reference to a log file in the
code.
> Telnet to the MVP and examine the /etc/dongle.config to see if it
> contains a copy of your dongle.bin.config. Also examine the
> /etc/udhcpc.config and see what it says for DONGLE= and SERVER=.
dongle.config existed, and is empty. udhcpc.config had server set
correctly, but DONGLE was empty.
This led me to look again at dhcp setup. I noticed I had commented out the
filename entry at some point while trying to get the box to boot at all,
this on the advice of more than one web page saying that the filename and
option lines weren't necessary.
After rebooting, still no config file, but bear with me!!!
> Try and manually use the MVP's TFTP client to retrieve the config file
> using the same syntax as found in the /etc/rcS script:
>
> tftp -g -l /etc/dongle.config -r ${DONGLE}.config ${SERVER}
>
> Note that $DONGLE comes from the boot file name specified in your DHCP
> config.
This failed with a message telling me than "Only absolute filenames are
allowed". I went back to the dhcp.conf and added /tftpboot/ to the
filename entry, and rebooted. This time, it read the config file in and
all was well.
So, thanks for your help Tom, I now have a box booting up with my custom
config, and able to play music etc.
Once I've had a bit more experience with this unit I hope to be able to
contribute in some way. I will certainly look to add some notes to the
wiki sometime soon, maybe after I'm a little more familiar with it all.
I think the main moral of this, at least from my own experience so far, is
that information is sparsely spread around lots of places, and some of it
is presented as universal, when in fact it pertains to only one or two
versions of the box. It is also somewhat incomplete, especially for later
models.
Cheers.
Mike Holden
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