We have some really old Linksys switches, but they still work, so trying to get them up from 2007 software. Here are the steps:
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The switches ship with firmware 1.0.0.45, to get them to the new graphical interface called version 3.0.0.17, you have to use the Easy Upgrade utility that only runs on Windows.
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In our case, we got a tftp server running on a Mac (you just launchctl) it and then in /private/tftpboot, you have to make sure the files are 666.
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Go to your Windows machine, figure out the ip addresses and then run the install. You will get hopefully to 3.0.0.18 by running the upgrade process both times.
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The upgrade process after moving to 3.x is very confusing. But apparently, you have to do a firmware upgrade on both images before the upgrade takes. Pretty amazingly bad, but what the heck, on to 3.0.2 now.
