Rewrite introduction to U-Boot Installation.
Includes some additional detail from the instructions themselves.
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| The U-Boot installation process is substantially more complicated than the | The U-Boot installation process is substantially more complicated than the | ||||||
| firmware update.  The investigator purchased the optional serial cable | firmware update.  The investigator purchased the optional serial cable | ||||||
| along with the TPE-NWIFIROUTER, in order to complete the U-Boot installation | along with the TPE-NWIFIROUTER, in order to complete the U-Boot installation | ||||||
| per the instructions in ``u-boot\verb0_0reflash''. | per the instructions in ``u-boot\verb0_0reflash'' in its section ``Installing | ||||||
|  | u-boot to your router'', which reads: | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | \begin{quotation} | ||||||
|  |   \begin{enumerate} | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  |     \item Install and configure any TFTP server on your PC (tftp-hpa). | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  |        Set a fixed IP address on your PC \ldots and connect it to the router, | ||||||
|  |        using RJ45 network cable \ldots | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  |  \item Connect USB to UART adapter to the router and start any application to | ||||||
|  |    communicate with it, like PuTTY. \ldots | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  |    \item Power on the router, wait for a line like one of the following and | ||||||
|  |      interrupt the process of loading a kernel: | ||||||
|  | \begin{verbatim} | ||||||
|  |     Autobooting in 1 seconds (for most TP-Link routers, you should enter tpl at this point) | ||||||
|  |     Hit ESC key to stop autoboot: 1 (for 8devices Carambola 2, use ESC key) | ||||||
|  |     Hit any key to stop autoboot: 1 (for D-Link DIR-505, use any key) | ||||||
|  | \end{verbatim} | ||||||
|  | \item   Set ipaddr and serverip environment variables: | ||||||
|  | \lstset{tabsize=2} | ||||||
|  | \begin{lstlisting} | ||||||
|  |     hornet> setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1 | ||||||
|  |     hornet> setenv serverip 192.168.1.2 | ||||||
|  | \end{lstlisting} | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  |   \end{enumerate} | ||||||
|  | \end{quotation} | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | At this point in the installation process, hitting a key failed to interrupt | ||||||
|  | the boot process and yield the \verb0hornet>0 prompt.  For the investigator, | ||||||
|  | this became a moment of consideration: is this  | ||||||
| 
 | 
 | ||||||
| However, the investigator was only able to read data from the serial port; the | However, the investigator was only able to read data from the serial port; the | ||||||
| investigator was unable to send key events via the serial port so the U-Boot | investigator was unable to send key events via the serial port so the U-Boot | ||||||
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