I have seen a strange Ethernet issue w/ the ap1000's. When connected to
a low-end autosensing 10/100 switch it goes back and forth between 10
and 100 on the switch.
Plugged into a linux box, hard coded the 100mbps to 10mbps half-duplex,
problem went away
Dan Metcalf
Wireless Broadband Systems
http://www.wbsysnet.com/
877-685-0578
dan.metcalf@wbsysnet.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com [mailto:karlnet-admin@WISPNotes.com]
On
> Behalf Of Norm Young
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:39 PM
> To: karlnet@WISPNotes.com
> Subject: Re: [Karlnet] 4.27 - ethernet port problem
>
> Chris, we have the same configuration as you describe, AP-1000 running
> v4.02. Power cycle, it runs fine. Never really have had a problem,
other
> than it doesn't report signal strength from the PRISM 2.5 radios
properly.
>
> Norm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Conn" <cconn@abacom.com>
> To: <karlnet@WISPNotes.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Karlnet] 4.27 - ethernet port problem
>
>
> > Charles Chia Sheng Wu wrote:
> > >>Karlnet that they never agreed existed is solved on the ethernet
port
> of
> > >>the AP-1000 as well.
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris, can you expand on this? We've also had a *mysterious*
ethernet
> > > problem that we were never able to figure out - but it didn't seem
to
> affect
> > > anything
> > >
> > > Just curious to see if it's the same thing
> >
> > Well, the only *mysterious* part about ours was that Karlnet told us
> > only we as well as another Hyperlink customer had observed this
problem
> > on the AP1000. We were willing to ship one to karlnet for "study"
since
> > we had 3 units (out of 3 that we bravely upgraded to 4.02) doing
this,
> > but they refused. We even ordered a NEW AP1000, new key and new
> > config/binfile from Hyperlink, and when we upgraded it (since even
> > though we told Hyperlink to upgrade it before they shipped, it came
to
> > us with Lucent AP software) it behaved the same. We sent that one
back
> > in an RMA since everyone was telling us this problem did not exist.
> >
> > The problem is as follows.
> >
> > 1) base station AP1000 running 3.88
> > 2) upgrade to 4.02
> > 3) everything works fine
> > 4) reboot via software, save config via software, as many times as
you
> want
> > 5) still working fine
> >
> > 6) unplug the power cord of the AP1000 (for 5 seconds or 5 minutes)
> > 7) power up the AP1000
> > 8) look at the ethernet light and now notice you are having tons of
> > "carrier sense" errors. Now the ethernet light blinks orange more
than
> > green
> > 9) get complaints of poor throughput by customers
> > 10) downgrade to 3.88
> > 11) works fine again using 3.88
> >
> > So, you can upgrade to 4.02 as long as you don't POWER OFF the unit.
> > You can reboot it a hundred times if you want, but don't pull the
plug.
> >
> > That is the scope of it.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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