This is a new one for me. A V3 probe, when powered on, lights the power light, and then blinks all other lights for about a second every few seconds. Forever. I opened a case on it and was referred to the USB stick recovery process. Sigh. This is not that problem, I know how to deal with the USB stick issue. Has anyone seen this? Is there a deeper recovery trick we can use? I'm perfectly happy to attach a console to the TP-Link device. I was planning on doing it anyway to see what errors I am getting.
Hi Philip, The chance that is bricked is very low so there is no need for such hardcore methods :) On the https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/#what-do-the-lights-on-the-side-of-the-prob... you can find your LED flashing patterns. If the second led is blinking slow it looks like it is running from the internal flash which means that either external flash is corrupted or damaged. Sometimes you're able to format the flash but do not notice the reduced size. Probe will not be able to function if the flash drive is smaller than 4GB. WBR /vty On 3/7/17 12:41 AM, Phillip Remaker wrote:
This is a new one for me.
A V3 probe, when powered on, lights the power light, and then blinks all other lights for about a second every few seconds. Forever.
I opened a case on it and was referred to the USB stick recovery process. Sigh. This is not that problem, I know how to deal with the USB stick issue.
Has anyone seen this? Is there a deeper recovery trick we can use? I'm perfectly happy to attach a console to the TP-Link device. I was planning on doing it anyway to see what errors I am getting.
I know all of those things. The pattern I am seeing is not documented. Do you need a video? Power light comes on, then ALL of the other lights blink on simultaneously for a second, off for two seconds, and all on again. The power is the only one solid the whole time. I've never seen it before.
On Mar 7, 2017, at 1:01 AM, Viktor Naumov <vnaumov@ripe.net> wrote:
Hi Philip,
The chance that is bricked is very low so there is no need for such hardcore methods :)
On the https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/#what-do-the-lights-on-the-side-of-the-prob... you can find your LED flashing patterns. If the second led is blinking slow it looks like it is running from the internal flash which means that either external flash is corrupted or damaged. Sometimes you're able to format the flash but do not notice the reduced size. Probe will not be able to function if the flash drive is smaller than 4GB.
WBR
/vty
On 3/7/17 12:41 AM, Phillip Remaker wrote: This is a new one for me.
A V3 probe, when powered on, lights the power light, and then blinks all other lights for about a second every few seconds. Forever.
I opened a case on it and was referred to the USB stick recovery process. Sigh. This is not that problem, I know how to deal with the USB stick issue.
Has anyone seen this? Is there a deeper recovery trick we can use? I'm perfectly happy to attach a console to the TP-Link device. I was planning on doing it anyway to see what errors I am getting.
Hi Phillip, On 2017/03/07 0:41 , Phillip Remaker wrote:
A V3 probe, when powered on, lights the power light, and then blinks all other lights for about a second every few seconds. Forever.
If it does this without the USB stick then it is very likely that the probe is bricked. That can happen if the probe loses power when it is trying upgrade it's built-in firmware. Though we haven't release a new firmware for the built-in flash for quite a while now. If this is about probe 16110 then the logs are consistent with the probe trying to upgrade it's built-in flash. Philip
Are there any steps I can take to unbrick?
On Mar 7, 2017, at 1:57 AM, Philip Homburg <philip.homburg@ripe.net> wrote:
Hi Phillip,
On 2017/03/07 0:41 , Phillip Remaker wrote: A V3 probe, when powered on, lights the power light, and then blinks all other lights for about a second every few seconds. Forever.
If it does this without the USB stick then it is very likely that the probe is bricked. That can happen if the probe loses power when it is trying upgrade it's built-in firmware.
Though we haven't release a new firmware for the built-in flash for quite a while now.
If this is about probe 16110 then the logs are consistent with the probe trying to upgrade it's built-in flash.
Philip
On 2017/03/07 11:06 , Phillip Remaker wrote:
Are there any steps I can take to unbrick?
Not officially. There are ways to open up the probe and reflash it without losing key material, but it is very tricky. Better to send the old one back and ask for a new one. Philip
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