As far as the alignment tone, I'm not sure. I thought they fixed that
for 13.4.1. Am I remembering that the tone uses the AP BER or beacons
frames? Maybe there's something going on there. I would try 14.1.2 on a
430 and see if it works.
On 10/19/2016 10:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
OK, that makes sense, especially about 13.4.1 being the end of the
line for FSK and 430 AP.
I’ll have to try that on the bench. I hate over-the-air experiments
that might result in truck rolls and pissed off customers.
I have been wondering what happens if I do auto update via an AP with
a mix of 430 and 450 APs, I don’t think there’s a way to specify do
one and not the other, unless it runs into no applicable update.
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *George Skorup
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 10:28 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 13.4.1 on PMP430 and alignment tone
I have taken 430 SMs to 14.x on the bench. 11.2 > 12.1 > 13.4.1 >
14.1.2. 450, 450i and 430 *SM* uses the same package file. The various
images are all rolled together in the pxp45x pkg3's. 13.4.1 is the end
of the road for the 430 *AP*. And FSK.
On 10/19/2016 10:14 PM, Sean Heskett wrote:
There isn't a .pkg file for OFDM 430 after 13.4.1
Also it's somewhere in the release notes or user manual but it's
been a while since I've read them and I don't remember which
version started talking about it. It could have been in some of
the beta release notes because we beta tested most of the 14.x
builds. Check the forums too because it might have been discussed
there as well. I'm to old to remember haha.
-Sean
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
OK, that provides some clarity but also more confusion. Not
sure I’m looking at the same document as you, I see
Introduction on page 5.
But in the 14.1.2 release notes, I see nothing about 430 at all.
In the 14.2.1 release notes, I do see a Note that 430 SMs must
first go to 14.1.2 before 14.2.1, and a Note they will no
longer be able to talk to a 430 AP. I am not seeing anything
about having to do the upgrade over the air (which is really
strange IMHO). Are you seeing this explicitly stated in the
release notes, or inferring it from the fact that 13.4.1 is
that last download listed on the website for 430?
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>] *On
Behalf Of *Sean Heskett
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 9:29 PM
*To:* [email protected] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 13.4.1 on PMP430 and alignment tone
Software release notes for 14.2.1 in the introduction on page
3 gives the best description. (I think it's on or near the
same page with the other releases but I'm on my phone so it's
hard to scan thru them all)
The update has to be done over the air thru SMs auto update
tho. You can't upgrade a 430 SM on the bench past 13.4.1.
-Sean
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
Do you have a link to that? I just checked and 14.1.2,
14.2.1 and 15.0 all say 450/450i/450m no mention of 430,
also on the download page if you select 430 the latest FW
shown is 13.4.1.
We gained a lot of stability with 14.1.2 and it would be
nice if we could bring the 430 SMs up to that. I’m not so
sure about 14.2.1, and 15.0 seems to be mostly to support
450m.
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Sean Heskett
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 6:38 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Cambium 13.4.1 on PMP430 and
alignment tone
Thru auto update from the AP over the air 430 SMs can and
should be brought up to whatever firmware the AP is using.
If you need to connect the 430SM back to a 430 AP you'll
need to manually downgrade the SM to 13.4.1 tho.
It's in all the 14.x release notes.
-Sean
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Ken Hohhof
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We have changed out all our 430 Aps for 450i, but
still have a bunch of 430 SMs running in 450
compatibility mode. My techs keep telling me when
they do service calls, that alignment tone is broken
on those SMs. The first time I figured bad hardware
since some roofers had bonked the dish, but as it
keeps happening, I’m realizing it must be the firmware.
I remember some FW release broke alignment tone on the
450 SMs and so we waited until the fixed it. I don’t
remember which release broke it and which release
fixed it.
But the release notes tell you that for compatibility
with 450i you should have 430 SMs on 13.4.1, plus I
think that’s the end of the line for 430, right? We
can’t go to 14.1.2 which is what we have on all our
450 stuff.
Does anyone know if in fact alignment tone is non
functional on a 430 SM with 13.4.1?
