Quoting my self from my post above..."check the other threads". As in check the other threads in this forum. More specifically:

https://apache-labs.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2993

Discussion on the performance of the 7000/8000 firmware has kind of settled into that one thread. Look a the ...

BTW, you are the second person who had this problem and had to switch to another PC. My suspicion is that either a) both machines have multiple NICs (that includes WiFi) and you did not set your network metric manually as specified in the instructions or b) WinPCAP needed to be installed ...

Scott - I can't find P2 Firmware v1.6 on Github.
Any hint where to find it?
73, Folkert

Got a very quick response from Joachim / Abhi:

The bootloader is OK and does NOT need to be reinstalled since the FPGA heartbeat LED is blinking in bootloader model,

Please ensure that:

The Radio is connected directly to the PC
He has not defined a fixed IP
All physical connections etc are OK ...

Thanks for the advice.
I contacted Apache Labs Germany http://www.apache-labs.de/.
Joachim is always very helpful and responsive.
Vy 73,
Folkert

Dear Scott,

Thanks very much for fast response!!

Yes, changed the Bootloader switch while powered off.
Then, after switching on, observed behavior is as follows:

Bootloader switch OFF (i.e. shifted to the right as seen from front of unit, jumper is OPEN):

As seen from the front: FPGA Heartbeat ...

After a failed update to P2 firmware v1.5 the 7000 / Orion Mk II is not recognized anymore by either v2 web programmer or the bootloader.

The P2 web programmer showed "Erasing" for more then 10 minutes, and failed to start programming.
This may have been caused because I forgot to rename the .rbf ...