nxt failure usb HID information destroyed can libnxt help?

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Hi,
my sons nxt box is truly borked after a firmware upgrade fail on apple 10.6.
I can hear the click suggesting that the bootloader is active and awaiting 
firmware.

However:
when I plug the device in neither the official lego software or libnxt(on 
linux) can see the device, it appears on the usb bus as a hardware address of 
the format 00:03:...

How would I dictate to libnxt what usb address it should load the firmware on?
I can debug python fairly easily but not 'c' so I am not sure where I should 
start looking, any help would be much appreciated

cheers
Chris

Original issue reported on code.google.com by captainhaha@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 5:15

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Not sure if this will help you but I had problems on Linux flashing my NXT 
recently and found the only guaranteed way to work is to use the Atmel SAMBA 
firmware flashing tool. 

Some links that might help:

http://ghostwood.org/software/macSamba.html
http://www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view/Linux4SAM/SoftwareTools
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3883
http://mcj220.blogspot.com/2008/11/howto-flash-lego-mindstorms-nxt.html

Original comment by caluml...@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2011 at 6:43