Tait TB7300, Installation And Operation Manual

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TB7300 Installation and Operation Manual Working with Base Stations from Your PC 43
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4.4.6 Preparing to Download Firmware
New versions of base station firmware are remotely downloaded to base
stations from a package server (a web server application). You can set up a
single computer to be the central package server for all the base stations on
your network, using a web server of your choice. Tait also provides the
Mongoose
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web server as part of the base station firmware package for use
with a temporary package server, such as a laptop.
The base station firmware package can be downloaded as a zip file from
the Tait support website.
This procedure describes using the Mongoose web server.
Installing the
Firmware Package
The installation procedure copies files into a folder and adds items to the
Windows Start menu (Start > Programs > Tait Applications > TB9300
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).
From the Start menu you can then access the Help, licenses, manuals and
release notes for each firmware package, and also start Mongoose.
You do not have to install Mongoose to make it work, because it is a
self-contained executable file. Once started, it will run in the back-
ground until stopped, or the computer is shut down. Mongoose must
also run from the same folder as the firmware files.
1. Save the zip file to a suitable location on the hard drive of the pack-
age server computer.
2. Extract the zip file, then navigate to the root folder and double-click
TB9300.msi to run the Windows installer.
Notice Tait recommends that the maximum length of the path to the
location of the extracted files is 100 characters. Using a longer path may
cause the files to be extracted incorrectly.
1. Mongoose runs on Windows only.
2. The TB7300 is designed to use the same firmware and download system
as the TB9300.