Forgive me if this has been covered before, I've been
off this list for a while.
I recently upgraded a Cisco AP350 to IOS. The upgrade
worked without a hitch. The unit came up just fine
running the new IOS release. The unit was set to
factory defaults. (Cisco states the upagrade to IOS
cannot be undone. Once converted from VxWorks, the
unit is forever bound to IOS.)
Since then, I have been unable to maintain any
associations to clients running Orinoco cards. These
are the same cards and that worked great before. The
log on the AP350 keeps showing clients loosing their
association due to excessive retries. Cisco cards do
better, but still have issues. In short, clients are
constantly loosing their association due to excessive
retries (both cisco and orinoco).
Diagnostics for the clients show the AP sending RTS
packets even when RTS is set to it's maximum. I tried
setting it to zero, it still sends RTS packets. There
are tons of retries. The cards always seem to fallback
to 1Mbs rate.
Last night, I tried again, flashing with the latest
12.2(15) IOS release. Set to derfaults. Same thing.
Netstumber shows the AP available then un-available,
sometimes for long periods of time.
I've tried swapping antennas. Setting to long headers,
turning off cisco extensions, raising max retries. In
short, a week of trial and error. In the end, I put a
BR-500 in and was up and running in no time, without
any issues.
So, what am I missing here ? Are others out there in
the same boat as me with their AP350's running IOS ?
One person I spoke with said they have the same issue
with all their 350's after upgrading to IOS. Now I see
where Cisco has discontinued support for the AP350.
These issues only appeared *after* the upgrade to IOS.
-T
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