updating firmware with a mac

[RussM]

I have given up...ok, the bit about creating building an Apex boot loader entry, when I type this in Terminal...

SUDO arp ñs <10.0.1.6> c:1d:12:e0:1f:10

I get no such file or directory.

TextEdit does not like that readme file..some chars are garbled, yet fine with cat The command switch is actually -s not ñs. And you don't actually use the brackets... they are there to indicate a value you must substitute in.

The full command should be:

SUDO arp -s 10.0.1.6 c:1d:12:e0:1f:10

(assuming your Apex's IP address is 10.0.1.6)

 

[RussM]

BTW, the only way I was able to open it using Mono was renaming the Firmware Update to update.exe, and drag and dropping that into the Terminal to establish the pathway...

The right way to do this is to open Terminal, then use the cd command to change directory to the location where you downloaded and extracted the archive. In my case, it was:

/Users/russ/downloads/release_4.04_BC10

cd to the right location, then verify that you can see the update utility using the ls command. Listed should be:
www
Apex Flash Utility.exe
aqua4.hex
readme.txt

Then run mono "Apex Flash Utility.exe"

 

[h20player101]

Ok, got the mono window to appear, turned on super user privileges, enabled root user. When I type in the command for SUDO and it asks for my password, it doesn't let me type anything...

 

[RussM]

If you are already logged in as root, don't use sudo. sudo (which is short for 'superuser do)' temporarily allows non-root (normal) users to escalate their privileges to root level.

So, if logged in as root just use
arp -s 10.0.1.6 c:1d:12:e0:1f:10

 

[h20player101]

I love you. :bounce3:

Now I can actually play with AI Sol & Vortechs!!!!

 

[RussM]

Also, anyone know how to stop anything running on the 224.0.0.XXX ip address when using Parallel? It is a multicast address, which I know nothing about.

Just disregard... it's probably communications related to Bonjour.

 

[reefjunkie42]

i wish i could