[ale] kuro-box pro

[Brian Pitts]

On 01/21/2011 12:15 PM, Charles Shapiro 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.

Hook it directly up to your laptop while powered off, start wireshark
listening on the interface you connected it to, then power it on.
Hopefully you'll see some traffic that provides clues as to what is
happening.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts