620CHAPTER A: TROUBLESHOOTING A WX SWITCH

Table 51 WX Setup Problems and Remedies

Symptom

Diagnosis

Remedy

 

 

 

3Com Wireless

The switch’s time and date

1 Use set timezone to set

Switch Manager or a

are currently incorrect, or

the time zone in which

web browser (if you

were incorrect when you

you are operating the

are using Web

generated the self-signed

switch. (See “Setting the

Manager) warns that

certificate or certificate

Time Zone” on page 125.)

the WX switch’s

request.

2 Use set timedate to

certificate date is

 

 

configure the current time

invalid.

 

 

and date in that time

 

 

 

 

zone. (See “Statically

 

 

Configuring the System

 

 

Time and Date” on

 

 

page 127.)

 

 

3 Reconfigure the

 

 

administrative

 

 

certificate(s). (See

 

 

Chapter 20, “Managing

 

 

Keys and Certificates,” on

 

 

page 413.)

 

 

4 If you have already

 

 

configured a certificate on

 

 

the switch for

 

 

authentication by

 

 

network users, you must

 

 

recreate this certificate,

 

 

too.

 

 

 

WX switch does not

The country code might not

1 Type the display system

accept configuration

be set or might be set for

command to display the

information for a

another country.

country code configured

MAP or a radio.

 

on the switch.

 

 

2 If the value in the System

 

 

Countrycode field is

 

 

NONE or is for a country

 

 

other than the one in

 

 

which you are operating

 

 

the switch, use the set

 

 

system countrycode

 

 

command to configure

 

 

the correct country code.

 

 

(See “Specifying the

 

 

Country of Operation” on

 

 

page 213.)

 

 

 

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