getting error while trying to flash my neo freerunner

[Michael Shiloh]

Detructor wrote:
> I've used the command out of the wiki...for example
> "sudo ./dfu-util -a rootfs -R -D ./Om2008.8-gta02-20080904.rootfs.jffs2"
> 
> I'm using the standard terminal from gnome
> 
>         Hey guys,
>         
>         I hope you can help me, I've the following problem:
>         
>         When I try to flash the neo on my laptop I get a
>         "Starting download: [dfu_download error -71"
>         
>         sometimes the download starts and then I get the error.
>         
>         When I get the neo in June, I could flash it without getting this error.
>         
>         My operating system: Ubuntu 8.04.1
>         
>         I ask here, because I can't find anything about this error in the www
>         (only 3 entries in google and none of it helps).
>         
>         hope for help
>         Detructor
>         
>         ======================
>         
>         Hi,
>         
>         What command line did you use? One cause of this error is when you give 
>         the wrong argument to dfu-util, e.g. -a u-boot while flashing a kernel 
>         image.
>         
>         Michael


And is your u-boot a recent version? Although if it's not it will be 
hard to update until we solve this problem.

Does this problem persist for kernel and u-boot too?

Can you check the integrity of the image you're trying to flash with md5sum?

Michael