[syslinux] TFTP-HPA beginner needs help

[John]

Still having trouble:

>>  cd /tmp
>>    ping -c 3 192.168.0.9   # check if TFTP server respons on ping
>>    tftp 192.168.0.9   # connect to TFTP server, you should get a new prompt

OK to here using 192.168.1.9 for NIC eth(0) and tftpd server 192.168.1.9

New prompt is tftp>

>>    get aa

This times out and returns to tftp>  Unable to return to shell using 
exit command

>>    exit
>>    # you shold be back in shell prompt
>>    cat aa  # check the aa script
>>    cat aa  # double check
>>    sh aa # the aa script comes alive ...

The router (client) is on eth(0) and I can connect to it using 
Firefox 192.168.1.1, but router page is all in Chinese language which 
I don't understand.
That is why I want to use tftp to flash new firmware to the router:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n#tftp_install_necessary_on_v17_hardware

Address in the openWRT article have all been changed to 192.168.1.9 
(server) and 192.168.1.1 target

PC is Ubuntu 14.04 on flash drive with xinetd and tftp-hpa

What am I doing incorrectly?

John


At 03:21 PM 9/2/2015, Geert Stappers via Syslinux wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 08:28:22AM -0500, John via Syslinux wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to flash new firmware into a router using TFTP-HPA.  I
> > am running Ubuntu 14.04 on a flash drive and still learning how to
> > use Linux.  I have also installed XINETD.D
> >
> > In one of the README files that comes with TFTP-HPA it said not to
> > call it using tptp.
> >
> > Here are the instructions I'm trying to follow:
> >
> >        cd /tmp ; tftp -gl aa 192.168.0.9; sh aa
>
>Translated: go to directory /tmp ; TFTP get file 'aa' from 192.168.0.9,
>   where 192.168.0.9 is your TFTP server ; execute the commands in 'aa'
>
>
> > I do not know what tftp server was used by the person that wrote
> > these commands and cannot seem to get a password to post on board on
> > which they were posted.
> >
> > Can you tell me how I should modify these commands?
> >
>
>
>    cd /tmp
>    ping -c 3 192.168.0.9   # check if TFTP server respons on ping
>    tftp 192.168.0.9   # connect to TFTP server, you should get a new prompt
>    get aa
>    exit
>    # you shold be back in shell prompt
>    cat aa  # check the aa script
>    cat aa  # double check
>    sh aa # the aa script comes alive ...
>
>
>Please report your milage
>
>
>Groeten
>Geert Stappers
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