Problem with blackcat and 5100e on ntl

[theayatollah]

Hi,

I've soldered the 10 pin bit to my modem, and connected the blackcat,

I've pluged the end of the blackcat into my pc printer port, (it needs a 5v what do I use to power the blackcat with 5v?.. I tired my multi adapter).

I've connected the ethernet cable, but not the cable feed, and plugged the modem in,

I've installed the blackcat software,

and now I run it, and selet the 5100 tab,
and click read next to the MAC bit,

the program has an error message "Error! Device is not connected" displayed and obviously it doesn't work?

any ideas why it's not working?

Thanks,
Tom

 

[666]

hi m8 did you get this blackcat from ebay,if so i think you power it up using usb port

 

[name750]

If you made the lead yourself,you need to apply 5v and earth from a usb lead.

Cut the end off an old usb lead and expose the wire.

Conveinetly 5v is the RED wire and earth is the Black wire.

Solder them to where it says on the diagram of the blackcat and it will work first time if you made it correctly.
If evey thing is pluged in when you start up the swaterkatzw (blackcat) it will detect the chip.
On a sb5100i it say broadcom.
Then your laughing!

What's interesting is the tcniso blackcat has no added power and it has the same chip as all the diagrams.
How do i know this???
My balckcat finally arrived.
Whats the fist thing i did????
Open that sucker up.
Good luck keep at it.

 

[trippy]

If you made the lead yourself,you need to apply 5v and earth from a usb lead.

Cut the end off an old usb lead and expose the wire.

Conveinetly 5v is the RED wire and earth is the Black wire.

Solder them to where it says on the diagram of the blackcat and it will work first time if you made it correctly.
If evey thing is pluged in when you start up the swaterkatzw (blackcat) it will detect the chip.
On a sb5100i it say broadcom.
Then your laughing!

What's interesting is the tcniso blackcat has no added power and it has the same chip as all the diagrams.
How do i know this???
My balckcat finally arrived.
Whats the fist thing i did????
Open that sucker up.
Good luck keep at it.

have you looked to see how it is powered m8?

 

[name750]

The blackcat....
Yeah it's the first thing i did.
Although i made one, id did'nt really know what i was doing.
It was just join the dots for me and paint by numbers.
Someone who understands might explain whats what?
The homemade one works great though and even if your crap at soldering.
It will take tcniso a month to send you there one.
You get membership but up to now it has been a big dissapointment.

 

[trippy]

so does the tcniso one work without power?

 

[pburns]

tcniso

Yes Mt8 mine works just by pluging into lpt port.

 

[trippy]

Yes Mt8 mine works just by pluging into lpt port.

so where is it getting the power from?

 

[name750]

There is power from the parellel port.
Looking inside it has a resistor and a yellow thing. Also it uses all the jtag points on the surfboard.
My brother would understand what they all were.
I might ask him.
But the home made one although not as pretty workd fine.

 

[theayatollah]

Hi guys,

I finally got the blackcat working, (the cable before it had slight cut in it, joined it properly and then powered it using usb and eh voila!!!

I used the Swartze ? software to put sigma x on, but from there I'm a little bit stuck,

anyone got any tutorials etc they have I can look at please?

and which configs do I use for a 5100?

cheers
Tom.

 

[L33tpL4y4]

Ino This Isnt Your Problem At The Min But The 5100e Is For C And W M8.

 

[theayatollah]

does the e version not work in both?

theres so much conflicting evidence here,

 

[name750]

The 5100e should work in both exCW (EuroDOCSIS) and pure ntl (DOCSIS).
You might have to change some settings within the sigma page or do some telnet commands.
If you have problems getting it working and feel like giving up.
I'm sure you'll have a load of exCW guys cueing up to buy your modem or something to swop it for.

The easy way to tell if it will work or not, is with the coax in and powered up.
Does it pickup the cable signal.
i.e. do the send and recieve LEDs flash.
The tcniso instuctions are not what others on here use at all and they have got there's working.
No-one who has helped me do the offset x2000 thing.
And they also change all the files. Bios,firmware and bootloader.
They also seem to add these files in a certain order.
and some recommend rebooting the modem on each loading of files.
I don't understand half of it but all that really matters is what works.