[Mesh] Trouble with meraki board

[Daphne Larose]

Thanks for getting back to me on this :D

(1) I was attempting to use POE but may try an AC adapter if i can find one
lying around.  Also, I think when Dan and I tried flashing it last night at
the meet-up it was over POE and he was able to get the script to at least
start transferring, but he was also using a different usb adapter.  My next
goal is to find a different usb adapter and try that out.

(2) The usb adapter is a manual one so it's possible something was off with
my configuration even though I checked it a bunch of times (though it was
pretty late in the evening lol).  Shoutout to Max: did you have problems
with this adapter when you were using it?

(3) That is a reallllly good question and I didn't even think of that
possibility!  I'll dig through the meraki docs to see if any mention is
made regarding that.


2014-07-11 5:56 GMT-07:00 Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>:

> I have no experience yet, only interest (in getting them working ;), but I
> have a couple of questions:
>
> (1) How are you powering the board--AC adapter or power-over-ethernet?
> (I'm not sure POE works, would be great to know.)
> (2) What sort of adapter are you using (i.e. did you have to manually set
> the pins) and is it fully and properly connected (physically)?
> (3) Does the board need to be set into a particular "flash" mode, as some
> of the other routers, perhaps by pressing/holding a reset button?
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Daphne Larose <daphne.larose at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>> I've been trying to set up the Meraki Sparky board to flash the openwrt
>> code to it, but when I connect the pins and plug in the usb adapter to my
>> laptop and run the meraki-flasher script, I get this exception "SerialException('device
>> reports readiness to read but returned no data (device disconnected?)')"
>> and the green led on the meraki board isn't lit.  But $ dmesg | grep tty
>> shows that it's connected.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas as to good way to pinpoint what the issue may
>> be?  Not sure if the issue is the usb adapter I'm using or the board
>> itself, but I was going to try buying another usb to ttl adapter
>> tomorrow to see if that helps. Any advice would be awesome!
>>
>> It was nice meeting you all tonight!
>>
>> Daphne
>>
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Daphne Larose

BA '10 Barnard College of Columbia University
MSCS '11 Georgia Institute of Technology
Software Engineer, Apportable Inc.
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