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BigShmoo's avatar
BigShmoo
Aspirant
Apr 17, 2020

GS116E firmware upgrade from a Mac?

My brand new switches came withe old firmware.  However the upgrade utility only appears to be available for windows.  Is there a way to upgrade these from a Mac or Linux environment?  If no I'm going to have to send them back.

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  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User

    More details please.

     

    GS116E or GS116Ev2, the label might say GS116E-200xxx for the newer one?

     

    Current firmware version based on the Web UI?

    The newer v2 one is in the market since late 2013 - and when I have it right (unless there was a special process required at some step) it does support http based update.

    • BigShmoo's avatar
      BigShmoo
      Aspirant

      My bad GSS116E - I hunted down a copy of parallels so I cound download a windows image so I could run the upgrade.  What pain that was.

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