[Rack] Cisco APs

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Thu Feb 10 05:13:56 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
> Jake and I tried to get one of the 1220 Aironet bridges to replace the
> flaky wireless interface on MC hawking, the wheelchair robot.
>
> After trying the obvious and not passing frames across the link, I
> found out the 1220 series can't bridge to anything besides another
> Aironet device.  A feature called "universal workgroup bridge" allows
> this, but doesn't seem to be available in any build for the 1220
> hardware.
>
> Bridging to the 1100 series APs doesn't work because they have G
> radios and the 1220 series only have B radios.  I don't know why they
> won't agree to use the 11 megabit modulation they have in common, but
> there's something in the firmware that won't allow it:
>
>   %DOT11-4-CANT_ASSOC: Interface Dot11Radio0, cannot associate: No
> matching rates
>
> We have other 1220 bridges, but no power supplies.  Does anyone have a
> 48V DC supply to get another 1220 bridge online?

I'm so glad that this finally got someone with a working console setup
to check this out.

How weird that it wont bridge with the 1100s though....

How about just replacing one (or both) of the AP1100s with an AP1200?
Should be easy enough if they're also 48vdc supplies.



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