WELL BOO!! I think I confused myself and got back on the one that has been working the whole time. HAHAHAHAHA , well..
So I'm back to being 1 for 2. I still have one that won't respond to anything. Link light stays on constant when it has link, but it won't attempt to
tftp nor does it spit anything out on the wire.
BAH I got excited for nothing, since I just reconfigured the one that has always been on 1.5.6 and not fixed the one that I feel is bricked. Especially since it will not attempt a tftp.
So I'm back to looking for ideas.
Earlier post with much excitement:: UUGH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHOOHOOO.. Well what do you know, placing my davinci.tar.gz from my current and working 5.1.6 camera actually worked last night. It was actually the same IP as that camera so no wonder I couldn't find it. I saw the link light flashing when it came back up and decided to see what it was doing, so connected to my MAC, ran tcpdump on that interface and low and behold saw advertisements for 192.168.12.206 that was my good working camera (one of the ones I had not messed with), so that means moving the the divinci.tar.gz file from one cam to the other worked.... So looks like I'm golden.. Dale still get a man hug for providing those files!! They are trustworthy and work!