[HamWAN PSDR] Metal 5SHPn firmware 6.12 is current (addendum)

[Bart Kus]

Hehe, congrats on your adventures!

Can you elaborate on the ethernet port being "dead"?  Do link lights not 
come up after power-on?

If you don't wanna work the reset button in future events like this, 
there is an option to tell the modem to try PXE booting first, and only 
after that fails, consult the flash (called "nand" in the config).  
However, the boot loader would be operating the ethernet port for this 
to work.  If the ethernet port truly does not ever bring up a link after 
power-on, then that's a weirder problem.

Hope the reset helps!

--Bart

On 5/4/2014 1:44 AM, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
> Well, this did not end well.
>
> As you can see from Nigel's SNMP data for my site, right after I 
> installed firmware v6.12 at 9pm, my wireless signal strength dropped 
> by about 10dB.  In other respects, everything seems to work, and I at 
> first I thought perhaps it was the rain.  However, we've had rain on 
> and off all day, and as you can see from Nigel's site, the signal 
> strength was fairly uniform until the very sudden drop at 9pm.
>
> Reboots did not solve the problem, so I reverted to v6.10 using the 
> "downgrade" command line option.  That did not improve the signal 
> strength, so I upgraded back to v6.12.  I checked all the 
> configuration settings, and everything looked normal.  Data transfer 
> through the radio worked fine.
>
> So, I decided to reset the configuration (using the command line) to 
> make sure nothing had changed.  I'd done that a couple times a month 
> ago, with no ill effects.
>
> However, this time it appears to have "bricked" the radio.
>
> It draws about 160ma (about the value from a week ago, when I first 
> measured it).  There is no light on the side of the unit, and the 
> Ethernet port is dead.
>
> I'm going to bed.  Sunday morning I will go out onto the roof and 
> attempt to reset the unit via the pinhole.
>
> I hope this is not indicative of MikroTik quality.  I'm glad the thing 
> is not up on a tower ...
>
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