External wifi card with omega
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@Enrico-Bermudez Oh no, seems like you unplugged the Omega when it is still reflashing, sometimes it can take quite a while to finish erasing the memory.
Do you have an ethernet expansion to debrick the Omega?
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Yes, I do. Not sure that's what happened...I left the omega for at least an hour while it was reflashing. But when I came back to it, the LED was off and nothing was happening on the screen.
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@Enrico-Bermudez Do you have the console log while the Omega is flashing? It should output the status of the firmware upgrade.
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@Boken-Lin -- I wish I took a snapshot of the log. I didn't, unfortunately. I just remember that when I finally got back to my setup, the omega's orange light was completely off, and the screen was either blanked out or just frozen. (Normally, after a reflash and reboot, I have to hit carriage return to get back to the omega's terminal prompt....but this time, it didn't do anything and the omega was completely off.)
Any estimate on when that tutorial to un-brick the omega will come out?
Thanks for your responsiveness!
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Hi @Enrico-Bermudez, it is already available here: https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Reflash-The-Firmware-With-Ethernet-Expansion
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@Boken-Lin -- It worked!
Interesting event though after I reflashed the omega. I downloaded another image in a folder on the root directory...and forgetting that I didn't expand the rootfs with pivot-overlay, I filled up the storage. When I rebooted the omega and went back to delete the .bin image file, it kept telling me that it's a read-only file system and that I can't delete any file or folder. Even with a "rm -rf <directory_name>", the omega kept telling me that the file system is read only.
I fixed it by pressing the factory reset button -- which is also a good test that it's now working again.Thanks for helping me through this issue. I learned so much from this event.
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@Enrico-Bermudez Awesome! Do
wifisetupandoupgradework now as well?
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@Boken-Lin -- Yes, both oupgrade and wifisetup work. One minor thing on oupgrade: It rightfully identified that b259 is in the device, but it says the latest firmware is b251 -- and that I have the latest firmware anyway.
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@Enrico-Bermudez That's because b259 is a development release. b251 is still the latest stable release.
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@Boken-Lin Oh I see.
