[500c] How Do I Use Dreamup ?

[wullboy]

Originally Posted by humforce

ive never had problems useing my usb / serial adapter on lappy with dreamup and ifa its allways the first thing plugged in after a format.
i only used the pc,s serial port for debugging the dbox,s

humforce m8, what is the make of your usb to serial lead, i just might get one to try, thanks...

[Satsearching]

You cannot beat a proper comport.

I regular have to use comport to configure GSM modems, PLC's and various other wierd machine control crap including bespoke microcontroller cards.

Most modern pc's and laptops don't come with a real comport, however my new company HP laptop actually did.

I had to get a PCI com port board for my home box, it now always works with whatever hardware I throw at it (home or work oddball hardware).

I'm with AL on this one, tried various usb adapters here before, they work to an extent with some hardware, but not all.

My pci comport board always works.

SS

[Magnu420]

if you have a pcmcia ports get one of these

PCMCIA to RS232 RS-232 Serial DB9 CardBus Adapter Card

[PaphosAL]

Originally Posted by Magnu420

if you have a pcmcia ports get one of these

PCMCIA to RS232 RS-232 Serial DB9 CardBus Adapter Card

I agree with Mags on this suggestion, as it will give you a 'real' RS232 IRQ COM port, which can then be configured in Device Manager 'as' COM1 or COM2 (swapping the existing integrated COM port that feeds through to the docking station port). DreamUP is happy with either COM1 or COM2. My compaq desktop PC here has two com ports, and I use COM2 for the DM500.

The PCMCIA > RS232 adaptors used to be VERY expensive, but the one that Mag's links to is a mere £6-50 !! Here's another one I just found on fleaBay - £6-89 buy it now, with FREE P&P from Hong Kong!

It's a no-brainer, IF your lappy has a PCMCIA slot, that is...

Cheers- AL

[humforce]

Originally Posted by wullboy

humforce m8, what is the make of your usb to serial lead, i just might get one to try, thanks...

its called. Bandridge

[wullboy]

Originally Posted by Magnu420

if you have a pcmcia ports get one of these

PCMCIA to RS232 RS-232 Serial DB9 CardBus Adapter Card

i do believe i do not have this on the pc... see pic... fooking typical, that would have been the answer to my prob

[wullboy]

Guy`s im having trouble getting dream up to flash a image to a corrupted DM500s, I have the 500s connected to dream up & it will start to flash a image, but after about 1 minute a get a box coming up and stating [ aborted by user,exiting ] does anybody have any idea what is happening here, Thanks !!

[renwich]

Try a different version of dreamup I had the same problem recently and that solved it for me

[bob114]

Hi

I have dream up on a old sony laptop
I have always used the laptop to bring back to live dm500c’s (after blank screens)
And also the 2 dm 500s’s I Iam now using
For some reason one of the sat boxes every now and then stops before the flash is finished
What I have since done is flash erase the dreambox a good few times before flashing an image
And this seems to do the job and the box flashes ok
I read somewhere on dm500's its best to flash erase for every old flash to clear the dm500 small memory
Eg tried 3 images flash erase 3 times before flashing an image to the dm500

Hope this may help bob

[wullboy]

Originally Posted by renwich

Try a different version of dreamup I had the same problem recently and that solved it for me

Bang on renny, after trying about 4 different versions, i finaly got version 1.3.2.1 to work for me,
christ, what a nightmare, there is so many versions out there, you just wonder where to start at times, Thanks guys....