Help .. Olimex AVR-USB-162 Dev Board

[dr0g0]

Guys,

Basically my Olimex dropped through the door yesterday, great .. Well it would be but for some reason, my PS3 isn't running the exploit. So here's what I have done and tried so far, if after reading anybody has any ideas or indeed has the same board, can you let me know how and what you did.

Basically, the Olimex board is a little on the large side, buy hey due to the shortages of these boards I was happy to get one yesterday. Anyway I opened the box, only to find no manual .. So I gathered as much info from this site and a few others as I could find.

Eventually, I hooked up the Olimex board to my PC, and straight away noticed that the red led was constantly flashing, and that Windows wouldn't see the device at all (XP) .. Of course not having any manual or instructions on how the board works, I stumbled across the fact that if you press the RST (Reset) button followed by the BUT (Button) this would in fact then cause the PC to auto find the device, and prompt for the windows .inf file. Which again I searched high and low for on the net only to find the .inf file was in the Flip program folder under USB. Finally the device was found within windows... great ...

I loaded Flip and selected the correct model for the chipset, and then proceeded to flash the eprom with the correct hex file. Once this was done, the what was red blinking led has now gone off, and doesn't flash at all .. This is fine though as I think it means the board is ready ...

The whole process to flash the eprom took what a second or so, and Flip came back and checked, and passed the entire, erase / flash /verify process and I could see that hex file had been programmed as by the hex name it was PSGroove..

Quickly rused downstairs to try this out on my old Fat PS3, and cycled the power and plugged the dev board into the first port on my ps3, and turned the ps3 on and quickly pressed Eject and nothing, now .. my ethernet cable is still in, so maybe I need to take this out .. as when I power the PS3 up the system is reporting an update is available ... i'm on 3.41 ... so tonight i'm going to pull the cable and see if this makes any difference ..

Also because the LED is off, it is very hard knowing if the exploit is doing anything, does anybody that has the same board, please report back on this thread and let me know if the LED has or does come back on since you have programmed the hex code ...

Also the hex file I used was for the right board and is 12k, does that sound right?? I know this board can be used for the explot, and I must of zapped the hex file on about 4 - 5 times, and even tried another hex I was sent which was for the same board but still nothing ... I'm just wondering if the fact that the network cable was still in, was something to do with it ..

Any advice would be appreciated, as the hard part is done, or maybe I should make my own hex to be sure ..

Thanks
Dr0g0

[ocat1979]

Are you positive you used the right hex file? My hex file for that board is 32k in size

[m4tt8]

I have a working psgroove.hex for the OLiMEX AVR-USB-162, i've just tried to post it attached to a new thread, i guess its been censored as i'm a newly subscribed.

I'll try again later =)

m4tt8

p.s. my .hex is 32kb so maybe your isn't compiled properly

[Monkers]

Hey

I got one of these boards myself and got it working about an hour ago. You have the wrong hex, it should be 32k.

[Muffy]

From a post i made yesterday

Ok for anyone who may be struggling with this here is a quick simple guide for:-


Flashing the Olimex AVR-USB-162

1, Download and install Flip programming software from Atmel

2, Attach AVR-USB-162 to you pc with a standard printer cable or whatever you have.

3, when windows finds the device it will most likely ask for driver which is located in \Program Files\Atmel\Flip 3.4.1\usb (*** see note at bottom)

4, Once installed start up flip click Device tab at top and then select and choose "AT90USB162"

5, click File/Load hex and browse to your desired hex file.

6, either click run or do step by step Erase/Program/Verify

And thats it you are done

***Now when you first get the AVR-USB-162 and plug it in nothing may happen just press But and Reset together on the device.

[m4tt8]

cant post links or files yet

you can get the working OLiMex AVR-USB-162 psgroove.hex for the below link (tt- removed!)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/j63n54...2-psgroove.zip

this is confirmed working with the patch for backup manager

[jgreen07]

Thanks for this very helpful thread, I really am grateful for everyone's help on these forums. Does this groove file have backup manager enabled? If not where should I be looking for this exactly please pm the details.

[ocat1979]

This is my hex file that i have compiled for this board, it's backup enabled and has the LED update:

[jgreen07]

Thank you soo much

[xXx_Fess_xXx]

Thank you soo much

can you confirm that this hex is working?