download center obsolete -- please help

Former Member over 13 years ago

now that RPi's are shipping in volume, it is absurd that the element14 download

center is so badly out of date. The versions of debian and arch are not recent,

the password for debian is not correct, there are no instructions on how to get

current versions of the firmware, even though some very important firmware

bugs have been fixed in the last month.

http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi#downloadcenter

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-44935

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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hello element14,

Four users: (chivers, Sidebottom, brown, Fahy)
http://www.element14.com/community/thread/18562?tstart=0
http://www.element14.com/community/thread/18369?tstart=30
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/06/06/failure-to-accept-login
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/06/06/failure-to-accept-login#comments

have recently been tripped up by the obsolete password instructions
in paragraph 11 (says suse, should say raspberry) at:
http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-44935

Can this please be fixed soon?
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bluescreen over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi Coder27.

Thanks for posting this! We are going to sort-out the issue with these non-current downloads as fast as possible and will post an announcement here to the Raspberry Pi group to let everyone know it's been fixed. Sorry about the problem!

Sagar Jethani
Head of Content
element14
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to bluescreen

Thanks Blue!
I look forward to not seeing any more complaints about passwords not working.
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bluescreen over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hey Coder--

Can you do me a favor + try it now? Our development team has just updated the download files, and everything should now be current.

/blue
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to bluescreen

Blue,
Everything looks good now, with the exception that there are no instructions
(at least that I see) explaining how to install newer versions of the firmware.
This is important because the Debian and Arch distributions are somewhat stale,
dated April 19 and April 29, respectively, and there have been quite a few
important firmware bug fixes since then.

The firmware updating instructions are at:
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Updating_firmware
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to bluescreen

Blue,
Everything looks good now, with the exception that there are no instructions
(at least that I see) explaining how to install newer versions of the firmware.
This is important because the Debian and Arch distributions are somewhat stale,
dated April 19 and April 29, respectively, and there have been quite a few
important firmware bug fixes since then.

The firmware updating instructions are at:
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Updating_firmware
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