6 Feb
2004
6 Feb
'04
2:14 p.m.
Sorry, just gotta let off steam. Got two new DEC RoamAbout
cards... bah! These are the UK version, so wont to the one
in my AP...
*bah*
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6 Feb
6 Feb
2:33 p.m.
On Friday 06 February 2004 20:14, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
Sorry, just gotta let off steam. Got two new DEC
RoamAbout
cards... bah! These are the UK version, so wont to the one
in my AP...
Won't they at least sync up to each other? What's so different about UK vs.
US versions?
Want to dump them on someone in the UK? ;)
alex/melt
2:39 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, meltie wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2004 20:14, Fred N. van Kempen
wrote:
Basically, the 2.4G cards using FH did not yet use the more or
less standardized channels, since they werent there yet. Instead,
different sets of usable channels were defined for each of the
various (mostly non-US) countries, making them largely incomatible
because of that :(
What we *really* need is a firmware blaster, to re-blast a single
image into all of these critters- obviously, their hardware is
exactly the same, its just the software settings...
Sorry, just gotta let off steam. Got two new DEC
RoamAbout
cards... bah! These are the UK version, so wont to the one
in my AP...
Won't they at least sync up to each other? What's so different about UK vs.
US versions? Want to dump them on someone in the UK? ;)
I
might, eventually..
--f
3:41 p.m.
What we *really* need is a firmware blaster, to
re-blast a
single image into all of these critters- obviously, their
hardware is exactly the same, its just the software settings...
The new (802.11b) firmware was available from Cabletron
and/or DNPG. But the firmware you seem to have (the
pre-802.11b stuff, ie the original stuff) is harder
to get hold of (ctron/dnpg stopped making it available
on the web years ago). So you want to find some
way of preserving it before you go overwriting it.
(Always assuming there *is* some way of getting
it off again).
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
4:10 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Antonio Carlini wrote:
The new (802.11b) firmware was available from
Cabletron
and/or DNPG.
Yes.
But the firmware you seem to have (the
pre-802.11b stuff, ie the original stuff) is harder
to get hold of (ctron/dnpg stopped making it available
on the web years ago).
Yes, that was apparent. The real question is.. how/where
do
we find it.
So you want to find some
way of preserving it before you go overwriting it.
(Always assuming there *is* some way of getting
it off again).
The tools they used to localize the generic cards by blasting
a set of {firmware+settings} would be needed. I assume this
was done by DEC, not Ctron, so I'll just have to find someone
who knows about it and bother to no end...
--f
5:19 p.m.
New subject: *blush (RE: *grunt*)
Hrrm.
You know... sometimes it *really* helps to ask a woman whether
you still look OK or not.....
I basically realized, that *although* the RoamAbout card *did*
see the access point, it did not get any traffic through. That
is, hmm, odd.
... until it daunted upon me. "AHEM. Is the segment on which
the AP resides, actually connected to the backbone????"
So.. I ran upstairs, and sure enough... the BNC connector from
that segment was unplugged from the DEMPR. Waaaaah!
Why? Well, I had a weird problem here when I was in the U.S.,
and I had my jump-in sys admin disconnect all networks that were
not needed for core operations.... :(
So there. It works now. At least the UK and DE/NL versions of
the RoamAbout cards *do* talk together. They both hate the U.S.
card, though....
Cheers,
Fred
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