Got hold of a new Nanstation Loco M2 but it has the XW hardware and firmware v5.6.12 (XW).
It will not allow upload of a down version of firmware. Is there an estimated time frame for testing and development of AREDN firmware for these newer versions of the Loco that appear to be the ones shipping now?
Thanks and 73
Mike, K5YX
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Nanostation Loco M2 - XW version
Thu, 09/14/2017 - 10:35
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Nanostation Loco M2 - XW version
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You will need to raise this as a feature request for new hardware in bloodhound ( http://bloodhound.aredn.org ) to request the AREDN team support the device.
Untill a basic evaluation is done in a ticket there is no way to guess how long this would take.
Unknowingly got an XW here too, same error, unable to downgrade. I was able to go directly from XW 5.6.12 to a nightly build, develop-169-d18d14f3. Trying the M5 XW release version resulted in ethernet ports not working no dhcp (may have been issue below). Your results may vary...or brick! Better to watch the ticket link above.
However so far it's been stable tho I don't have anyone connected to it yet on RF side. Has the same XW behavior where primary ethernet port is only untagged and the secondary carries vlan 1,2. Also the map seems to not want to update tho I can see it connect out the WAN and my firewall towards the internet.
A superset of notes... the nightlybuilds will not work with the Bullet unless AirOS is downgraded to v5.5.x -- still a fix in the pipeline. All the other models supported in 3.16.1.1 + the ones shown included in a release candidate on the supported hardware page, no longer require the AirOS downgrade or usage of the uboot compatibility program. There is a fix in the nightly build (and 3.17.1.0RC1) such that a failed attempt to load these AREDN images will no longer brick the device -- can always tftp back to AirOS.
Joe AE6XE
The upload to map issue has been corrected and you should now see your nc8q-nst-m2 node on the map.