Which Steps after Serial Connection Bricked POGO

[Aarshad]

Dear All,

I bricked not one but two plugs recently ! Both pink V2...One POGO-B02 and one POGO-B04 (with OXNAS). Both were working, but after trying some stuff and doing reboots the B02 just wont come up online, no IP and no SSH. The B04 plug, the pacman was suddenly broken, not working after a reboot it wont come up, no IP and SSH either. Both were installed on USB sticks.

Now I want to do a factory reset on them and bought a DKU-5 cable, I understand how to connect it to the PLUG and how to start up the seriall connection. But I dont find exactly what to do after the serial connection to get it working, which commands etc....

Any Ideas, and do mind that I'm quite new to this whole environment lol

[timschuerewegen]

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1203

[Aarshad]

Thank you very much, I searched for couple of days on the net, but didnt come up with this page, but with lots of others which are not clear for a noob like me.

This looks much more clear now ! I will try it out this week !

[WarheadsSE]

As an aside:

No OXNAS board is a "pink V2". All B0x are OXNAS based, and "V3"s

If your 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' says anything about OXNAS, IT IS NOT A V2.

[Aarshad]

i made the cable by using dku-5 nokia cable, but every time i try to insert it in the usb port with the plug running, i get something like " no correct driver installed" kind of thing. I dont understand how i shoul link this USB connection to the COM poty, such that putty can see it. Im using Win 7.

[WarheadsSE]

See the bottom of the page: http://Arch Linux ARM.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_Pro_Serial

[Aarshad]

Thanks again.

I tried this already but still I see that the driver is installed incorrectly (code 4).....Everytime i plug in the DKU-5 USB in the USB slot I see the unable to find driver window ! Also in device manager I dont see the Prologic drivers but only the USB not recognized !

I tried the same in XP and no luck there even with orignal DKU-5 drivers !....My pin-layout on the plug which Im using is this, if you look from the powercable to the J3 port (left to right):

GND, RX, TX, NOT USING !

[Aarshad]

Im starting to suspect that the plug is not bricked but I need to install new filesystem on the USB.

The LED light is blinking very fast continously.......I now installed the rootfs on an USB stick again with my mac addr file but still blinking....

[WarheadsSE]

You need xce.ko

[Aarshad]

WarheadsSE THANKS !!!!!!!!!!

My plug is working again...One question remains: I have a E02 pink Pogo (No pro), with the same blinking light problem ! Do you think i should follow some kind of same approach ? it stopped working when I followed the uninstall thing on this forum: http://tekplug.blogspot.com/2011/01/ins ... drive.html.

One other thing, can I delete the kernel26-oxnas-pci-2.6.31.6_SMP_820.3-1.1-arm.pkg.tar.xz in my root directory of Arch Linux ARM to free up space ? Or are these used by any process

Just for completness I will list what I did to make Pro working again.

1. I extracted the rootfs from the official Arch Linux ARM installation site to the USB:
http://Arch Linux ARM.com/index.php5/Install_on_Pogoplug_Pro (Bottom part)

2. Followed threadh http://Arch Linux ARM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1156
I inserted some extra lines in /etc/rc.local

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script.
#

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.6_SMP_820/kernel/xce.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.6_SMP_820/kernel/xce.ko
bash proled green

sysctl kernel.hostname=Arch Linux ARM')

Then I went to [snip] and got the cloudengines tar file which i untarred and copied the xce.ko to my plug USB at /lib/modules/2.6.31.6_SMP_820/kernel/

3. Then I inserted the USB in the plug and waited couple of minutes and the green LED stopped flashing

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script.
#
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