csystem Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Just a FYI, I was playing with a newly arrived OM1P (same board as the AP51) and noticed this in Redboot: RedBoot> bdshow name: MR3201P-FLF-38NQ magic: 35333131 cksum: 5a13 rev: 5 major: 1 minor: 0 pciid: 0013 wlan0: yes 00:12:cf:d6:20:17 wlan1: no ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff enet0: yes 00:12:cf:d6:20:16 enet1: no ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff localbus: no ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff PCI: no ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff uart0: yes sysled: yes, gpio 2 factory: yes, gpio 6 serclk: internal cpufreq: configured 184000000 Hz sysfreq: configured 92000000 Hz memcap: disabled watchdg: disabled (WARNING: for debugging only!) serialNo: RedBoot> RedBoot> version RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM] Accton release, version v1.5.1 - built 20:10:40, Aug 19 2008 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc. Board: ap51 RAM: 0x80000000-0x82000000, [0x8003f640-0x80fe1000] available FLASH: 0xa8000000 - 0xa87f0000, 128 blocks of 0x00010000 bytes each. RedBoot> Apparently the watchdog can be disabled, mine was when I bought it, probably is by default in the Alfa ap51's. Curious on why this OM1P had it disabled, but pleasantly surprised. These Redboot commands were run before flashing, but I think the setting is stored in NVRAM anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I wish we would have found a way to disable it. But no they are not disabled stock (In both my AP51 and OM1P). That was one of the first hurdles was the watchdog chip. The work around was to make a heartbeat script that took care of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebkinne Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Either way, the heartbeat is built into the current firmware so a watchdog chip is not an issue for us at the moment. That was an odd thing to crack though, as I wanted to be able to permanently remove it. It isn't easily possible to change the watchdog Boolean, either you are lucky or they now ship OM1Ps with disabled watchdogs. Seems unlikely though as it is actually a great feature for mesh networks. Thanks for the tip though, I will take a closer look at it. Best, Sebkinne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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