Troubleshooting Guide; My Firmware Upgrade Won't Start Or Failed. Why; I Can't Connect To Url Mylinkit.local Using A Browser, Why Is That; My Virtual Machine Cannot Detect The Board When In Station Mode, Why - MEDIATEK LinkIt Smart 7688 Developer's Manual

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Troubleshooting Guide

7.1.

My firmware upgrade won't start or failed. Why?

If you're using a USB drive to upgrade firmware, please make sure you've checked the following:
• The USB host cable that connects to the USB drive is firmly attached
•
The USB power/host cable is securely attached to the Power connector and not the Host
connector of the board.
If you're using the Web UI to upgrade firmware, please make sure you've checked the following:
• The power source was steadily supplied to LinkIt Smart 7688 during firmware upgrade. Do
not unplug the USB drive or disconnect the USB cable during firmware upgrade process or
else your board will fail to boot up. If that happens, you can use boot loader to boot up the
device. Please see section 3.4.3, "Upgrading boot loader" for more information.
After you've checked the items above, please try again, if you still can't upgrade the firmware,
please contact technical support at Seeed Studios or go to MediaTek Labs forum.
7.2. I can't connect to URL mylinkit.local using a browser, why is
that?
If you're using Windows 7, please install
and try mylinkit.local on your browser again.
7.3. My virtual machine cannot detect the board when in Station
mode, why?
In a Linux simulated environment such as virtual machine, mDNS isn't supported and therefore
you need to have the IP address of the board in order for it to be identified. To find the IP address
of the board, type ifconfig in the system console. The IP address should show in the first
paragraph under apcli0, as shown in Figure 61.
Figure 61 Finding LinkIt Smart 7688 IP address in Station mode
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