12-06-2025, 10:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2025, 08:03 AM by anoduck.
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Purchased an Alpha One, took it out of the box, plugged in the Ethernet cord, inserted a blank SD Card, and plugged in the provided power cable. Noticed from the start, only one of the two ethernet port lights were lit, which indicates a faulty port. I created a brand new Cat6 Ethernet cable with shielded RJ45s, and tested it, to make sure the cable was not the issue. I then checked to see if the alpha one had acquired an IP Address, it indicated it did, but attempts to connect failed due to timing out. So then an ARP scan was performed to see if the board would respond to ARP, but it did not. I performed a ping test for redundancy, which timed out, then the Alpha One disappeared entirely from the network.
Repeated attempts to try to configure the network proved unsuccessful, until the decision to reflash the entire board with the official image was reached. This was performed to the letter as instructed by RockOS, here[url=https://docs.rockos.dev/en/docs/installation/][/url]. The result of which was fewer errors generated in syslog, but overall no change. Neither could the board obtain connectivity, nor could anything connect to it.
Current efforts are invested towards discovering whether the EMMC is defective, before moving on to other parts of the board itself. In my sixteen years of experience, I have yet to encounter a system I have been unable to get up and running, I do not plan for the AlphaOne to be the first, but there is little I can do when it appears the hardware itself arrives broken.
Repeated attempts to try to configure the network proved unsuccessful, until the decision to reflash the entire board with the official image was reached. This was performed to the letter as instructed by RockOS, here[url=https://docs.rockos.dev/en/docs/installation/][/url]. The result of which was fewer errors generated in syslog, but overall no change. Neither could the board obtain connectivity, nor could anything connect to it.
Current efforts are invested towards discovering whether the EMMC is defective, before moving on to other parts of the board itself. In my sixteen years of experience, I have yet to encounter a system I have been unable to get up and running, I do not plan for the AlphaOne to be the first, but there is little I can do when it appears the hardware itself arrives broken.