3Com WXR100 3CRWXR10095A, WX4400 3CRWX440095A Disabling or Reenabling Automatic Firmware Upgrades

228CHAPTER 10: CONFIGURING MAP ACCESS POINTS

The default bias is high.

To change the bias for a Distributed MAP to low, type the following command:

WX# set ap 1 bias low success: change accepted.

Disabling or Reenabling Automatic Firmware Upgrades

A MAP can automatically upgrade its boot firmware by loading the upgrade version of the firmware from a WX switch when the MAP is booting. Automatic firmware upgrades are enabled by default.

To disable or reenable automatic firmware upgrades, use the following command:

set ap apnumber upgrade-firmware {enable disable}

Forcing a MAP To Download its Operational Image from the WX

A MAP’s operational image is the software that allows it to function on the network as a wireless access point. As part of the MAP boot process, an operational image is loaded into the MAP’s RAM and activated. The MAP stores copies of its operational image locally, in its internal flash memory. At boot time, the MAP can either load the locally stored image, or it can download an operational image from the WX switch to which it has connected.

By default, a MAP model that can locally store a software image on the MAP will load the locally stored image instead of downloading its image from the WX switch.

To force the MAP to always download its image from the WX switch instead, use the following command:

set {ap port-listdap dap-num}force-image-download {enable disable}

A change to the forced image download option takes place the next time the MAP is restarted.

Even when forced image download is disabled (the default), the MAP still checks with the WX switch to verify that the MAP has the latest image, and to verify that the WX is running MSS Version 5.0 or later.