no matter what i do i cannot get passed it . i have managed to repair quite a fue of theses switches using cloned doms and reinstalling the port key and flashing to the most current firmware but this fault is a no go regardless of what firmware i put on the dom. i have tryed known working doms.
i cannot enter the cli it says temporaraly unavailable
any suggestions as this fault seems to be getting very frequent across the 5100 switches so im having to write them off.

LILO 22.6-CCB boot: 3.0.2.0-008R -P fix
Loading 3.0.2.0-008R…………………..
BIOS data check successful
SIOCSIFNAME: No such device
SIOCSIFNAME: No such device
insmod: cannot insert `/lib/modules/2.6.13.4-ws-symbol/pktdrvr.ko’: No such devi
ce (-1): No such device
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
Running Secondary software, version 3.0.2.0-008R
Alternate software Primary, version 3.1.0.0-045R
Software fallback feature is enabled

Please press Enter to activate this console.
WS5100 login: cli
% Connection is closed!
==== NOTE ====

The system is still starting up, and the
regular CLI is not yet available. Please exit this shell and try again.
If this problem persists then this shell
provides a limited subset of commands
to allow you to restore the system to
a working state. Please use “help” or “?”
to see a list of available commands.
diag >

many thanks in advanced

That’s very impressive Brian… I think you are only the second person I’ve ever heard from that was able to resize/clone the DOM. I believe the 128MB DOM size was a limitation of the early operating system… I’m not 100% sure but I believe the license file is tied to the MAC address so you might run into problems cloning the DOM and sticking it into another Wireless LAN Switch.

Thanks for the follow-up!

Well I was able to get everything running again. I installed the DOM in my PC. Booted Debian 7.04 Live. I then found that the DOM was only partitioned for 128MB. I then resized the partition to 256MB. I reinstalled the DOM in the switch and after 2 or 3 reboots and some database rebuilding performed by the system, my switch was back up and running. I was then able to upgrade the unit to 3.3.3.5-002R. Everything works great now. I did purchase a used unit on eBay for $35 including shipping. It worked great and was already running 3.3.3.0-006R. I was able to upgrade it to 3.3.3.5-002R also.

After all this, I then connected the DOM to an IDE to USB adapter and was able to create an image using Ghost. I did find some DOMs on Amazon that I am going to try out in one of the units after I install the Ghost image on them. They were only $15 each.

Thanks to this blog, I was able to get some ideas to try to fix this issue on my own.

Thanks for the great blog Michael. I was able to learn a lot about these switches from it.

You’ll probably find a replacement unit on eBay easier than cloning the original DOM.

Cheers!

The flash IDE drives in the WS5000s are known to fail over time so that’s probably the issue.

Sorry.

Hi Alex,

What IP address is currently configured?

show ip inter brief

If you’re actually asking how to configure the IP address, then you should refer to the Getting Started Guide.

Good Luck!

Hi Michael, ok i´m ready connected by console to RFS, now how i can change the IP address, I just wanto to change this IP to connect me by GUI.
Thanks!

Hi Alex,

You can utilize a standard Cisco console cable (19200-8-N-1) and console up to the RFS6000.

Good Luck!

Hi Francisco,

The RFS6000 utilizes a standard Cisco pinout for the console port. You need to set the speed to 19,200bps not the standard 9600bps.

Good Luck!

I haven’t seen one of those in ages… I believe the default username was admin with a password of symbol. The console port runs at 19200 baud like most every piece of Symbol/Motorola gear.

I can’t say exactly if there’s an option to factory reset, have you tried interrupting the boot cycle to see if there are any options there?

Good Luck!

For anyone else looking for the answer.

I believe the newer Motorola Wireless LAN Switches utilize “admin” and “superuser” for their username/password combination.

Cheers!

Never mind, I got in.
Thanks.

Hi Alma,

You’re English is pretty good… or Google Translate is doing a great job!

The default username/password varies depending on the software release you are running. You realize that you must enter “cli” at the first login prompt? After that you can enter the username (and password) that you created. Look at the same output below, at the login prompt answer cli, then at the username prompt answer admin with the password you created.

WS-5000 login: cli

User Access Verification

Username: admin
Password: *****
Welcome to CLI
WS-5000>

Good Luck!

Hi Michael,

I don’t know english wery well. For this reason I’m sorry if it’s difficult to understand what I mean.

I have a problem with the login on a Motorola WS5000 (software ver 2.1.3.0-010R).

I’m no more able to login trough the web inteface. After I red your post I connected to the serial. I reset the password (admin/reset_default_password) and the sitem rebooted.

now I’m able to login to the cli with admin/symbol but when I logout from the cli (bye command) and I try to login as admin/symbol, the sistem tell me: Login incorrect.

I also created anoter user with administrative right but the reslult is the same.

Please can you tell me what I do wrong.

Thankyou for your Help.

Hello,

Do you still need the image for the 256Mb dom disk ?

Regards

Admin
superuser

below v3
admin
Symbol or motorola