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Trouble Firmware WMS5316
Hi, I recently bought 1 WMS5316 and 2 AP WNDAP350. I boot the wms5316 and click on every menu with firefox6 on W7 32bits - Everything is ok. Then before to tune all the stuff, I decide, like ...
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I am still 100% convinced there is a firmware bug, the Discover feature sometimes disappears, has randomly found my devices, but more often than not left me stranded.
But in hopes of getting things running I did the following.
Downgraded back to 2.0.2 and added the mac addresses for my units.
Discover feature was working no problem except of course for the firmware conflict.
Upgraded to 2.1.2, verified Discover feature wasn't finding any of my devices yet again. At this point I noticed that when I downgraded to 2.0.2 I jacked up the config on the one access point that I had somehow got configured on the WMS5316. So I reset it to the default, and bamm, now it was discovered using the Auto Search.
So it seems the unit will find units that are freshly factory reset, but not units who have been modified. I am not sure if the only reason this worked was because I added the mac address while in the 2.0.2 config, or if it will work with others. So one by one I reset each access point and have added them to my WMS5316... The process wasn't perfect for me as I had random times where I had to reset a device more than once for everything to come up and show in sync. Def a pain in the ass, but at least I am not stuck waiting for a firmware update.
I am still 100% convinced there is a firmware bug, the Discover feature sometimes disappears, has randomly found my devices, but more often than not left me stranded.
But in hopes of getting things running I did the following.
Downgraded back to 2.0.2 and added the mac addresses for my units.
Discover feature was working no problem except of course for the firmware conflict.
Upgraded to 2.1.2, verified Discover feature wasn't finding any of my devices yet again. At this point I noticed that when I downgraded to 2.0.2 I jacked up the config on the one access point that I had somehow got configured on the WMS5316. So I reset it to the default, and bamm, now it was discovered using the Auto Search.
So it seems the unit will find units that are freshly factory reset, but not units who have been modified. I am not sure if the only reason this worked was because I added the mac address while in the 2.0.2 config, or if it will work with others. So one by one I reset each access point and have added them to my WMS5316... The process wasn't perfect for me as I had random times where I had to reset a device more than once for everything to come up and show in sync. Def a pain in the ass, but at least I am not stuck waiting for a firmware update.