So.. I remember why I had this one P8 radio in the WTF pile. It's a
5700BH20. At some point, a long, long time ago, it decided to turn
itself into an Advantage SM.
Anyway, I finally got through getting the stupid thing and CNUT to make
it H/W scheduled. Then I tried to go from 7.3.6 to 13.4. Didn't happen,
filesystem out of space. Had to go 10.5 > 11.2 > 12.1 then 13.4 worked.
I factory defaulted it. Then put some basic config on it. Set a color
code, deleted root, set admin account password. Really nothing more than
that. Reboot, comes up fine.
Now enable NAT and reboot. It's not scanning. The power, sync, session
and GPS LEDs are all solid. Ethernet LEDs are off and can't ping it.
Default plug it, factory default, boots fine. This time all I did was
enable NAT and it will not boot again. NAT on P8 be broke.
I'm glad you stumbled on this, Bill. Those few P8 SMs I have on the
network have NAT enabled, so those would be screwed like yours. Guess I
can't update that AP. WTF.
On 7/9/2015 6:21 PM, George Skorup wrote:
Well that's lame. I have a couple P8s. I'll pull one out tomorrow if I
have time and update it and see if I get the same thing.
On 7/9/2015 6:05 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
Actually no. I just made some basic changes. Set color code, turn on
NAT, remove the admin user, set bandwidth shaping.
It didn't like something. Just not sure what, because once I changed
it, it was opaque.
bp
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On 7/9/2015 4:03 PM, George Skorup wrote:
I assume you're talking about uploading and applying a config file?
Maybe there's something in it that's incompatible with the P8?
So now we wait for 13.4.1......
ducking :o
On 7/9/2015 11:32 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
What I did with what appeared to be a bricked radio was just insert
the default plug. The unit then came back to life. Once I was able
to access the device, I pushed the "Reset to factory defaults"
button, saved the configuration, pulled the default plug, and
rebooted. At that point I could still access the unit. I then
applied the configuration and rebooted. It did not come back; no
ethernet, no RF. I did re-reset it, and it came back again.
bp
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On 7/9/2015 9:04 AM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
I wasn't the one investigating the P8's that came back. It's
possible Matt just started with a default plug with the ones he
was looking at so it's entirely possible.
Mark
On 7/9/15 11:51 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
I didn't look at the frequency checklist. However, after I apply
the configuration, the ethernet link goes completely off (as if
it were turned off). So it's impossible to get any data as to
what is actually happening inside. No ethernet link, no RF link.
Once it's defaulted, it appears "normal".
I did not try to selectively apply "parts" of the configuration.
That would be an adventure....
bp
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On 7/9/2015 8:44 AM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
It appears the update to 13.4 clears all of the frequencies in a
P8 radio which makes it not associate. Reselect the frequencies
and they are fine. Obviously not good for your truck roll schedule.
Mark
On 7/9/15 1:53 AM, George Skorup wrote:
Well thanks for being the guinea pig Bill. I have a sector with
a couple P8 SMs. Awesome. I haven't started updating anything
to 13.4 yet though. Sure will be fun getting the P9s on that AP
to update since P7, P8 and P9 is a one-shot deal.
On 7/8/2015 10:06 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
We did another couple groups of updates to 13.4 last night. On
one sector we had a couple of very low volume users on P8 FSK.
Both of them bricked.
Well, not exactly bricked. We should have updated them to
newer hardware a long time ago, and since they were not heavy
users, it really was not a priority item.
So we swapped them out today, and brought them back to the
shop. Turns out you could bring them back to life if you
default them. Cool I thought. However, as soon as you apply a
"real" configuration, they revert to brick mode. No ethernet,
no life. You can re-reset them and bring them back. So I
defaulted one, and downgraded to 13.1.3, and all is well, or
as well as a P8 can be.
Not real valuable, but if you have some old P8 FSK still
running anywhere, I do not recommend you try 13.4 on them.
bp
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On 7/2/2015 2:11 PM, Ryan Ray wrote:
Who's gonna be the first guinea pig? Make sure to do a 1000
unit upgrade and let us know how it goes :P
