Tait International Limited TBCK4B Manual Do Utilizador
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TB9400 Installation and Operation Manual
Working with Base Stations from Your PC
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© Tait Electronics Limited September 2011
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Preparing to Download Firmware
New versions of
base station
firmware are remotely downloaded to
base
stations
from a package server. A package server is a basic web server
application. The product DVD provides the Mongoose web server.
Note
You do not have to install Mongoose to make it work, because
mongoose-3.0.exe is a self-sufficient executable file.
mongoose-3.0.exe is a self-sufficient executable file.
You can set up a single PC to be the central package server for all the
base
stations
on the network using mongoose or any web server. You can also use
a laptop as a temporary package server.
To set up a PC as a package server, proceed as follows.
1.
Insert the product DVD in the computer’s DVD drive.
2.
If the DVD does not autorun, navigate to the DVD’s root folder and
double-click mongoose-3.0.exe. An “m” icon appears in the system
tray to indicate that the package server is running.
double-click mongoose-3.0.exe. An “m” icon appears in the system
tray to indicate that the package server is running.
3.
If the PC is to be the central package server, configure each
base
station
with the package server’s IP address and port.
a. Select Configure > Base Station > Miscellaneous.
b. Under Package server, enter the IP address of the package server.
4.
If a laptop is to be a temporary package server, temporarily override
the package server IP address and port in each
the package server IP address and port in each
base station
.
a. Select Tools > Tools > Firmware Download.
b. Under Package server, enter the IP address of the laptop.
You can now instruct a
base station
to list and download firmware from the
package server.