Typo in my last, fixed below -- net address should have read "192.168.0.111".
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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On Apr 21, 2025, at 14:45, Jay Freeman <jay_reynolds_freeman@...> wrote:
Continuing my report ...
Summary: It has gotten worse, now the problem seems to be intermittant ... :-(
This morning, I set up the hand controller and Gemini-2 box as before, and again connected to my house modem with an Ethernet cable in anticipation of tryng to ping the unit (which I neglected to do yesterday), but on powering up, the hand controller quickly made it past the "connecting to ..." stage and came up with the "Mount Startup" screen, but could not get much further: When I tried "Cold Start", the hand controller simply hung -- no further changes in its screen after pressing that button. When I cycled power and tried "Quick Setup", the system made it to the screen where I set time and date, but on pressing "Next" from there, the controller hung again. This behavior was repeatable.
Possibly the problem retarding progress was that I did not have the motor drive cables installed ... ?
Next I tried pinging 192.168.0.111 but gave up after 130 packets had been sent with no returns.
I then disconnected the Ethernet cable, on the odd chance that it had something to do with the situation, and the system behavior did not change -- made it to "Mount Startup" but could't get much further.
I don't believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or self-healing electronics, so I am going to call Losmandy. Further suggestions welcome, and I will keep you all advised.
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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On Apr 21, 2025, at 04:37, Paul Kanevsky via groups.io <yh@...> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM, Jay Freeman wrote:
my present plan is to contact them tomorrow and ask advice. Sounds like a good plan, Jay. If you have a 2-4GB micro-SD card on hand, I'd format it with FAT and then try replacing the card in the Gemini CPU with it. That should be good enough to get Gemini to boot-up. If that works, then you just have a problem with the SD card. In that case, populate the blank card with all the Gemini firmware files, and you should be good to go. Otherwise, contact Losmandy for help with troubleshooting.
