A word of warning...

[sub]

I was curious what would happen if I tried a very old dongle.bin on my new H series MVP. That MVP is now dead. So if you're tempted to try really old dongle.bin files on your new MVP - dont do it...

I'm contacting Hauppauge about the problem.

[stefan]

Good thing for people that you are such a great voluntary guinea pig

[mvallevand]

I was curious what would happen if I tried a very old dongle.bin on my new H series MVP. That MVP is now dead. So if you're tempted to try really old dongle.bin files on your new MVP - dont do it...

I'm contacting Hauppauge about the problem.

You might want to check out the mvpmc wike since a lot of similar comments were being posted on the mvpmc forums about the mvpmc dongle.

http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/hxhowto

The key "recovery" steps steps seem to be, load a version 3 Hauppauge MVPMediaSvc, ensure there is a dongle.bin.ver which matchs the dongle.bin in the Hauppauge Dongle folder, and wait a long time 1-5 minutes after a error before unplugging and retrying.

Martin

[sub]

I have tried that, but it doesnt even get as far as attempting to request dongle.bin.ver or dongle.bin

[mvallevand]

Have you looked at the serial output it should get interesting right after the IP information starts showing up and it decides if it should load a dongle.

I guess I want this to work for you because I'm expecting my H3 this week and I can easily load 10 different dongles when I'm in emulation mode testing. Hauppauge told Jon Gettler that there was no writing to flash so I'm a bit surprised to hear you've been able to brick yours.

Martin

[sub]

Have you looked at the serial output it should get interesting right after the IP information starts showing up and it decides if it should load a dongle.

Yes, this is what I'm getting. It may be just some fluke that has caused this to happen though - I'm sure I've done this numerous times in the past.

[sub]

I dont know what I did, but after much fluffing around, it seems to have sprung back into life! Yay!

...so disregard my warning.

[mvallevand]

Yes I think there is a problem for Hauppauge somehow the root= line was removed. What dongle caused this?

Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 profile=3
....
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

=============================
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 profile=3 root=/dev/mtdblock5
....
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I like the good news and I assume your lines match mine now too. It might be just be a question of waiting.

Martin