I think it was because there were a couple people including myself who after loading one firmware or another (old or new) and then the radio ceased to work at all. The Power and wireless LED were on solid and there was no longer a LAN connection available from the radio making it impossible to do anything with it except return it to the vendor or smartbrdidges. Some suggestions wee made that maybe if the unit was in an error state before you loaded any firmware it caused a corruption problem? So a suggestion was made to let the unit cool down / power down for 5-10 min before trying any firmware upgrades if there was an error it would clear? remember there are capacitors in the unit that store power for a small amount of time even after power is removed but not enough to make the unit still transmit but just enough I am sure to keep some things going like the memory in a chip etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Billy Huddleston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Re[5]: [smartBridges] Firmware Issue > > I still don't understand why I would need to wait 15-30 minutes > before I repower the unit up. Is the radio sill transmitting off an > internal power source? Or is it the flash rom needs to cool off so it > will correctly operate? Which sounds like a hardware issue to me. > > Barry Barry, the flash is still hot and there for still running SLOWER than the firmware EXPECTS it to be. sB has modified the timeouts in the new firmware to compensate for this slower response time from the flash. By waiting 15-30 minutes, it gives the flash time to cool off enough so that it's timing returns to normal parameters. So, yes, it's a hardware issue in the fact that the flash runs slower when it gets to hot as compared to the previous flash, however, it's a firmware BUG that's causing the lockup issue. Thanks, Billy The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
