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Brand New - No connectivity <resolved beware of usb adapter cables> >

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 7:15 am
by Aussieatlarge
This is a hardware issue? Just received my board. Followed all instructions. I have a heart beat. Both my PCs show “media disconnected” on Ethernet port. Tried different cat5e cable. No lights come on on the ports. Configuring the static up makes no difference because the media is disconnected. Tried reseating the seeed. I think i have a hardware issue. The symptoms are at the hardware layer, not the transport layer.

Re: Brand New - No connectivity

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 7:54 am
by tblough

Re: Brand New - No connectivity

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 8:36 am
by cnckeith

Re: Brand New - No connectivity

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 5:27 pm
by Aussieatlarge
Need a new bbg. Will follow “little green brick” instructions.

Re: Brand New - No connectivity

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 3:27 pm
by martyscncgarage
Aussieatlarge wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 5:27 pm Need a new bbg. Will follow “little green brick” instructions.
Why does it need a new BBG? What happened?
Others can learn from the issue.
Marty

Re: Brand New - No connectivity

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:56 am
by Aussieatlarge
This is embarrassing but I will share.
My laptop had no com port so I looked through my box of USB stuff and found what I thought was a USB to RJ45 converter. It turned out that what I had found was one side of a USB extender which allowed one to extend a USB cable with the use of an ethernet cable (the other end would have been the female USB to RJ45 connector) . So when I plugged usb into ethernet into BBG, I basically sent 5Volts straight from my USB port into the poor ethernet card on the BBG. That was all she wrote.

Re: Brand New - No connectivity

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:53 am
by martyscncgarage
Aussieatlarge wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:56 am This is embarrassing but I will share.
My laptop had no com port so I looked through my box of USB stuff and found what I thought was a USB to RJ45 converter. It turned out that what I had found was one side of a USB extender which allowed one to extend a USB cable with the use of an ethernet cable (the other end would have been the female USB to RJ45 connector) . So when I plugged usb into ethernet into BBG, I basically sent 5Volts straight from my USB port into the poor ethernet card on the BBG. That was all she wrote.
Thanks for sharing that!
It is what it is. We lean from expensive mistakes!
Dedicated physical Ethernet port on the PC for Acorn and the shielded cable are a must.

Hope things are going better for you!
Marty

Re: Brand New - No connectivity <resolved beware of usb adapter cables> >

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:52 pm
by Gary Campbell
My laptop had no comm port
Laptop:. Strike 1. Don't use them
No comm port:. Strike 2. Should have been an obvious disqualifier.
Thinking there is a low budget work around for inadequate hardware: Strike 3. You are fortunate that's all you blew up