Here is what I ended up doing after several hours of internet research:
Dish had "updated" the software on Wally and rendered them useless for portable dish use without additional software upgrade that - wait for it - the Wally will not complete on a portable dish. Gotcha! The tech told me to take the Wallys to Camping World where they could do the update for you. Well if you have a CW close, OK they will do it for minimum bench charge of $74 for 30 minutes. As I am not handy to CW, the tech agreed to send me 2 z211 units at no charge. They both work fine, but are older technology (ie larger, not so friendly interface, generate a ton of heat and will not work with a hard drive that is powered from the USB port).
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On your Wally, check the software version being run - if it is U801. your Wally has been smacked. If it is some older version like U449, then it will probably continue to work until it decides to upgrade on its own. You need software version U802 to again work with a portable dish. To get it to load, you need to hook the Wally to a fixed dish (Dish dealer, Camping World) or what I did was use my home dish that is cabled to a Hopper normally. Tune the Wally to channel 110 as that channel is on Sat 119 where the software loads come from. Get the Wally into stand by mode with a single push of the power button on the front of the Wally. You should be looking at the screen saver that tells you to push any button to watch tv. Now go away and leave it untouched for at least an hour. If the satellite gods are with you, you should see software version U802 and the Wally will again work with a portable dish.
