roy

I thought I'd summarise the following which I'd picked up from a few separate threads, as I had this issue when my brand new netduino arrived today and initially thought it was faulty. It should help someone else having the same problem as I had and save a few hours of frustration!

Problem:
Can connect to netduino, but when deploying from visual studio, deployment never finishes. Unable to ping netduino from MFDeploy, in other words netduino is there but unresponsive.

Solution: (Update to the latest firmware whilst in the tiny boot loader):

• Download the latest firmware as of now (version 4.1.0.2, you'll need to be logged into this forum to download it.)
• Unzip the contents to your hard disk
• Start MFdeploy: Start Menu -> Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 4.1 -> Tools -> MFDeploy.exe (the one with the church window like icon).
• Hold down the button (and keep holding it down) on the netduino while plugging it in (the blue light will stay on)
• In MFdeploy change the Device to Usb and make sure your netduino is selected in the dropdown alongside (probably as netduino_netduino)
• Now quickly click the ping button in MFDeploy before the netduino's blue light goes out.

You should now get a response something like:
Pinging... TinyBooter
Bootloader build info: Netduino by Secret Labs LLC

Now quickly before the tinyboot loader starts loading the .net framework code

• click the browse button in MFDeploy and browse to where you unzipped the new firmware.
• Select the ER_CONFIG and the ER_FLASH files, they will now be listed something like C:\netd\ER_CONFIG; C:\netd\ER_FLASH in the box.
• Quickly click deploy, (you need to be quick before the boot loader exits - I didn't manage the first time and the deployment will hang before it starts if your too slow, just start again).
• If it's working you should first see an erase progress bar followed by a writing (I think it was) progress bar.

The update will take a minute or two.

After this your netduino should be working normally.

Roy