User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- TK-RP08
- The TK-RP08 allows its user to upgrade firmware contents whenever is needed to enhance its functionality and/or performance. With the firmware upgrade feature, your investment on the unit is further ensured and its life-time value just maximized. You don’t have to buy a newer unit just to have better features, instead you can have them all added to your current unit with an easy flash upgrade! The correct Flash upgrade procedure is described below. Please follow the instructions to complete your firmware upgrade.
- The TK-RP08 can be used as a power control accessory for TK-IP101 Swtich, or any other KVM Switch that supports a standard serial power control.
- Before you connect the TK-RP08 to the TK-IP101, you might need to install them first into their own proper placements within a rack, that is , if you are going to use them within a rack. After you have installed the TK-RP08, TK-IP101 into the rack, or into their proper locations, you can now proceed with following steps for further connections.
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If the firmware version is lower than 040421, here you
should type in /
TK-RP08 \ on the command line and
then hit
Enter
to go into command mode.
On the HyperTerminal window, you’ll see the Testing
OK message and the existing firmware version
number…..
Step 6. Type Upgrade on the command line and hit
Enter…Now you have your HyperTerminal ready for
file transfer. Keep your HyperTerminal window open
and go to the next step….
Flash Upgrade File Transfer
Step 7. To start loading the file, access the drop-down menu
on HyperTerminal: Transfer/Send Text File….
….and a dialog box will prompt you to select the flash
upgrade file, *.x (with a file extension name as .x). In
this case, we have our flash upgrade file as TK-RP08
3.0.1_040907.x (it could be any other file name with
an .x extension!). Note that since it has an extension
name other than .txt, we have to select the “All file
[*.*]” option in order to see it on the file listing…
Then select our target file: PowerGate.hex.bin.x. And
then Click Open to begin the file transfer …..
When the file transfer is completed, you will see the
message: OK!! Please Restart on the HyperTerminal
window to tell you that Flash Upgrade process is
successful….