Just a note for others.
Received DGX Spark on Thursday, October 23. Was setting it up late last night in wireless appliance mode on WiFi and using a MacBook. Everything appeared to setup fine, the Spark showed on my network and I was able to connect with the Dashboard/Sync app from the Mac.
But, the GPU/Memory display in Dashboard was static, showing no activity. It also was indicating an “update available”.
So I clicked to run the update. A progress bar appeared and then the UI just froze in the Dashboard. I let it sit for an hour. My local WiFi and internet service running normally throughout.
I ssh’d into the Spark. It was live, but no processes were actively updating, so I rebooted it at the CLI. It came back up to the same condition, and I ssh’d into it again. nvidia-smi reported that it couldn’t communicated with the driver and gave no report.
After poking around a bit, it appears the post first-boot update probably failed at some point and the second update invoked from the Dashboard seems to have partly installed and failed too. Leaving things in a bad state.
Worked with apt via command line, and then the Wifi and 10gbe were dead.
Took it to a desk with a monitor and keyboard, surprised it booted to the screen and I logged in. The video-drivers were now installed active, but WiFi/BT/GbE all missing from the system. Looks like the SFP ports were present, but I don’t have cables for those.
At that point, figured it was dead in the water.
Downloaded the recovery image, made the USB image, followed the current instructions, re-flashed with the recovery image and it came up good.
Repeated the setup process in monitor/desktop/keyboard mode and all went smoothly after that.
It may be superstitious but I would recommend doing the first setup out of the box with a monitor/keyboard and wired ethernet if possible.