Update from v47 to v70 not working HELP!!

[TOMSK]

I have a Huawei E160G 3G Mobile Broadband Dongle and i have downloaded the relevant drivers now here is my problem. In order for the v70 driver to work i need to upgrade to v70 as my minibook has v47 installed.

Now i have followed the instructions to the letter regarding upgrading with an SD Card and pressing FN+SHIFT+F1 together while booting but either the screen goes all funny or nothing happens at all.
When i release the keys the machine boots up normally. I then shutdown and restart the machine and low and behold i still have v47 installed.

My question is do i have to upgrade to v66 first and if so is there a link to download kernel v66 because i can't find it? This is just driving me insane.

[Unhban]

No, you don't have to upgrade to v66 first, you can go straight to v70.

I had a little trouble upgrading because the instructions are not detailed enough. So.... you have the files on your SD card OK and you've made sure that your machine can read the SD card OK - there was some problem with SD cards and they had to be FAT and not FAT32-formatted at one time (also 4GB or less unless you have the large drive patch installed... which you won't have as you're not upgraded to v70 yet!). So if you've checked you can read off of your SD card OK then that's fine.

Now.... here's the trick of installing properly:

1. have the SD card in its slot
2. have the machine turned off
3. switch the machine on and the little green light comes on.. IMMEDIATELY press down and hold FN+SHIFT+F1
4. keep those keys held down whatever you do!
5. when the screen changes from black to normal you can release the keys and installation should proceed - note it doesn't tell you its being upgraded except you should get a v70 screen
6. let it boot up fully and leave it a minute, then reboot.

I think the problem with those failing the install is that they let the screen change from black to normal and only then press FN+SHIFT+F1 - they have to be pressed whilst the screen is still black.

Hope this helps!

[Leven2e]

Thanx,now te boot-up screen shows at the top left corner : ELX-V07      (and not 70 )
I used the latest elonex MBR.

[Unhban]

Good, sounds correct then Leven. I used the CnM Lifestyle machine's upgrade, where, as I say it shows v70.

[Jay Turner]

Thanx,now te boot-up screen shows at the top left corner : ELX-V07      (and not 70 )
I used the latest elonex MBR.

Sorry little dumb whats the difference between system restore and MBR?

[Unhban]

Sorry to perhaps sound clever about this but I've always understood MBR to be Master Boot Record, a 512-byte boot sector that is the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. It can be used for (as the wiki says ):

# Holding a disk's primary partition table
# Bootstrapping operating systems, after the computer's BIOS passes execution to machine code instructions contained within the MBR
# Uniquely identifying individual disk media, with a 32-bit disk signature; even though it may never be used by the machine the disk is running on

If this boot sector gets damaged, you can recreate it by using FDISK /MBR

Now I think I know what Leven means, but in answer to the question.... if you do a system restore it restores every file. If you do an upgrade to a later kernel (as v70 is) you just replace files that have been updated, not replace all of the files on the computer.

Now.... an individual file may have been updated because of a bug in it, a better way of doing something in the file, or recoding so it takes less memory.

Hope this helps.

[TOMSK]

Thanks for all your replies i have discovered that when i insert my SD card (which is a branded i-integral 2gb) an icon appears (small green circle)on the bottom of the gui saying SD. This leads me to assume the machine has recognised the card, but i can't seem to access the files on the card. Like with all icons i double click on the icon but nothing happens and there is nowhere else on the machine giving me access to the card.

How do i access the files on this card?
I assume this problem is the reason why i'm having problems in updating to v70!
I've tried different brands of SD Cards all formatted to FAT with the same result.
Please can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?

Also if i try to do a full system recovery the machine reports back it can't find the discovery file
ergo what make of SD card actually works on this thing!!

[Jay Turner]

TOMSK, my 4gb Kingston SDHC card works fine.

[Leven2e]

you can see your SD card via the File Manager (SD).

[TOMSK]

you can see your SD card via the File Manager (SD).

No I can't when the SD card is in the only folders i have available are Extend (Extend_1), My Documents, Download, My Favorites, My Files, My Games, My Media and My Photo's.

I've navigated through all these with no trace of an SD folder

[Leven2e]

Isn't it possible that you didn't insert your SD card the right way? Make sure that the metal chips are facing upwards (and the label faces down) ?!

[TOMSK]

SD card is inserted correctly and is of the same type another member is using so it should work but it isn't.

[Unhban]

I don't think the normal File Manager shows the SD card? I can't remember as it's so long since I used it. But Midnight Commander used within Xterm definitely shows it.

Load them up and then within Xterm type  mc -c

Or you can use the add-on for Firefox (Bon Echo) called Firefly. But it's a bit slow, so I prefer to use mc.

[Leven2e]

File manager shows SD,at the bottom.

[waldgrun]

As you will see I am very new here! Like TOMSK  I have Cnmminibook which runs v47 and am trying to update to v70 without success. I have tried Unhban's advice
and have a question. Am I right in the way I read this,quote: "there was some problem with SD cards and they had to be FAT and not FAT32-formatted at one time" to mean that the cards should never have been formatted to Fat 32 at anytime and if it has, it's useless for this task?