Oops. Sorry... the unit is a model 340 not a 430. I have my shoes on the wrong feet too... cje On Wednesday (04/10/2002 at 09:03PM -0500), Chris Elmquist wrote: > We have a Crisco Aironet 430 that had an unknown management password. > > Someone followed a procedure found a Crisco website that was supposed > to revert the unit to factory settings and allow us to put a new > password in. Unfortunately, this procedure was wrong either entirely > or just for the particular firmware version we were running-- and the > result is that the unit has lost its "Installation Key". > > Without this key, the unit runs in an extremely crippled fashion-- > probably some kind of demo mode-- because it won't do WEP and it won't > allow more than one node to associate with it. Nice... > > Crisco says the unit is toast and we have to send it back for repair. > It's out of warranty and I can't believe it would be cost effective > to ship it to them, pay their service charge and ship it back-- when > I can go to Best Buy and get any number of comparable units for > ~$180. > > Has anyone experienced this bit of Crisco Rocket Science? Is there > another way out before we put this baby in the morgue? > > It would seem that if I had the 60 byte Installation Key file... I might be > able to xmodem it onto the thing using a download or upload > (depending on who is up and who is down :-) ) function that I saw > on one of the menus. > > I have seen numerous web postings where people have apparently experienced > this same bit of botchery and Cisco has provided them with the key to > fix the problem. For us, they have taken the position that we have to > send it back and they won't offer up any key. > > Chris > > -- > Chris Elmquist mailto:chrise at pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~chrise > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list -- Chris Elmquist mailto:chrise at pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~chrise