Saturday, January 28, 2006

SMC Barricade firmware upgrade

Been having issues with the SMC Barricade (2804WBRv2) and SCV Maxonline lately. If the computer goes to sleep mode and wakes up, it is usually assigned a random private IP address i.e. connected to the wireless gateway but no route to host. Wired connections don't have this problem. Rebooting the copmuter, router and cable modem also didn't seem to help.


Happened to discuss this with BK and it appears that he has the same symptoms.


Decided to just upgrade the firmware and take the opportunity to change the encryption scheme to WPA and so far it's working perfectly. It also allows the SMC to function as a WDS. Nice.

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