I'm not sure what initially caused the bad flash but another member here sent my co-worker a few page PDF that walked you through the steps to sent your NIC to 192.168.0.70 and connect to the LIPU/BIPU via crossover and also connect to it via telnet and rename the LIPU firmware file to vmlinuz (for LIPU only) and initiate a TFTP transfer from the telnet session.

Thanks for being a great community.

Now off to try and get this iES32 with 4GB flash up and running since you can't ping it or get it to announce but is not showing any faults in eManager and looks good.