Beta has been working just fine until today when I finally set the time through the GUI.
The power was cycled and it hung with starting audio on the display.
I flashed it again with both the consumer and developer versions to no effect.

Here is the log on the serial port of the boot.
Incidentally, I've tried this with both the ethernet cable plugged in (office LAN with DHCP) and without the ethernet cable plugged in. This report showing without it plugged in.
It does obtain an IP address when it is plugged in to the LAN.



empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg49 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #127 Wed Oct 17 16:02:35 BST 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 90000822)
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10968k/12M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 332k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
Could not find CS4231A (version=80)
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004f80).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, 11513MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=23392/16/63
hdb: IBM-DARA-212000, 11513MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=23392/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:12:03:36
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump... VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initI see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
empeg-car 2.00-beta3 2001/10/17.
00000008 DHCP name = lo
00000008 DHCP index = 1
00000008 DHCP flags = 0x8
00000008 DHCP addr = 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP bcast = 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP mask = 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP name = eth0
00000008 DHCP index = 2
00000008 DHCP flags = 0x1002
00000008 DHCP addr = 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP bcast = 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP mask = 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:12:03:36
00000008 DHCP Current IP address is 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP Broadcast address is 0.0.0.0
00000008 DHCP Attempting to open Autonet socket for eth0
00000008 DHCP Adding interface eth0
00000008 DHCP Sending DHCP discover (eth0)
000

That isn't a complete log.. perhaps the last bit was not flushed to the logfile when you pasted?

Rob

from his bootlog: Could not find CS4231A

This is bad! It's AUX-IN.

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Edwin de Vaan

No, that's all i was getting.
Last night I did get it working incidentally. It looked like the CPU was getting pegged because eventually I was able to get the keys on the front panel working for some reason but the GUI was very very slow...
The source was for some reason set to AUX of which i have nothing connected. I was able to navigate the GUI and switch the source back to player and then everything was fine. The player became operational and was runnning at normal speeds.
I'm wondering if this has something to do wth polling the AUX-IN for track identification and running the visuals. Since there was nothingm it choked.

Also, I'm finding that my clock does not keep the time set. It has defaulted back to 12:00 July "something" 2001 several times.

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=bigs&Number=42349&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=7

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Edwin de Vaan

Does that mean that you think it's hardware?

Sorry for my very cryptic answer, I'll try not to do that anymore...

The fact that the bootlog shows the chip can't be found is a hardware related issue if you ask me. I recommend contacting [email protected] for sorting this out.

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Edwin de Vaan

I haven't tried using AUX port for some time now. Probably a few months.
I can't see the need for it in the forseable future and as long as I keep it in player mode it works.
Other than the fact that it'd be great to keep it in tip-top shape, do you think it's a necessary repair? I'll have to check if I'm inside the terms of my warranty. I added a second hard drive so they may void it.
The player is working fine now, just only when in player mode.

You might have read about the problem I had concerning AUX-IN a while ago. The cause for this problem wasn't entirely related to the chip (CS 4231A). So other things might have had some influence. I'm not telling you that you must have your unit repaired, but I just recommend having it repaired if it's still in warranty, which is one year from the date of purchase. Basically: if I was you, I would have it repaired!

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Edwin de Vaan

I'm still waiting to receive the wiring loom from support so I can get my tuner working. I've had it for some time now and I have never seen it work yet.
I wouldn't mind having some confirmation from someone at empeg who frequents the BBS that this would be the correct action considering the facts I've presented. I don't want to bring up another issue until the first one is resolved, especially if they're just going to tell me that I'm out of warranty or something.

Sending my whole unit and tuner in is what support recommended when I emailed them about my tuner not working. Thanks to Q/A on the BBS, I didn't have to, they just sent me a new loom. Now, it just has to get to me.