coming home after a long work day I detected a strange smell in my room;
after some investigation it turned out that
guinan's motherboard
has melted down; i.e. her third host body is dead for sure (offers for a
replacement welcome). well, no flat server at the moment.
more unpleasant is that it seems to have killed (via the kvm switch) my
TFT; need to check again, call the insurance company, probably buy a new
screen. — currently I'm typing in front of an old & not very
healthy 15" CRT; I hope the problem is fixed before I turn blind.
(oh, BTW, the kvm switch might be dead, too, at least keyboard & mouse
have stopped working several times.)
good news: my hero&hausmasta
chrisu has soldered a —
whatever, the part to be able to connect to the serial port in my
bricked fonera,
& after changing the RX/TX cables it really works with the serial
extension cable I have (&
cutecom
as a terminal app).
some times later it works ("works" as in: I successfully
re-flashed & therewith de-bricked
kes). the key was not to
transfer the needed files via
cutecom
and the
xmodem
protocol but via
tftp
.
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