RuggedWireless™ RS900W Family Wireless Firmware Upgrade Guide RuggedCom Inc. 30 Whitmore Road, Woodbridge, Ontario Canada L4L 7Z4 Web: www.ruggedcom.
Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
Table of Contents 1 Software Upgrade.................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Overview......................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Assumptions ................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Software upgrade procedure .........................................................
1 Software Upgrade 1.1 Overview The following instructions are meant to guide the user through the software upgrade and (example) configuration procedure for the RuggedWireless™ RS900W family of industrially hardened, fully managed IEEE 802.11g Access Points, Client / Bridge and Client / IP Bridges with integrated Ethernet switching. All of the instructions in the guide are given from the perspective of the RS900W product User-Interface.
b- Enter to access the ROS shell prompt c- Type “version” command and you should see something like “ROS v3.5.0” (or higher) reported to the display. 1.3.4 Step 4: Disable RSTP: a- Goto Main Menu b- Ensure that Spanning Tree -> Configure Bridge RSTP Parameters -> State -> Disabled is selected. c- Save the setting by pressing 1.3.5 Step 5: Upgrade the IEEE 802.
2 Example RS900W configurations 2.1 Configuration for WPA2 enabled “Access Point” operation a- Remove any previous configuration on the RS900W: Ensure that Diagnostics -> Load Factory Default Configuration -> Yes is selected. b- Set the IP address of RS900W: Ensure that Administration -> Configure IP Interfaces -> IP Address is configured. c- Set the IP subnet mask of RS900W: Ensure that Administration -> Configure IP Interfaces -> Subnet is configured.
h- Set SSID: Ensure that WLAN Interface -> Network Parameters -> Network Name [SSID] -> RUGGEDTEST is configured. i- Set Authentication Mode: Ensure that WLAN Interface -> Security Parameters -> Authentication Mode -> wpa2-psk is selected. j- Set Encryption Algorithm: Ensure that WLAN Interface -> Security Parameters -> Encryption Algorithm -> aes is selected. k- Set Passphrase [WPA,WPA2]: Ensure that WLAN Interface -> Security Parameters -> Passphrase [WPA,WPA2] -> testing1234 is configured.
