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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
We'll be performing the software updates and wireless setup today, and I don't think there will be any issues.
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I was wrong -- there were two issues.
First, the manual was apparently revised a week ago with no obvious announcement. It was just an accident that I decided to download a copy onto my own computer today before going to the shop to work with the students. It was less easy following the steps on screen than it would have been on paper.
Second, the Driver Station seemed to stop forwarding packets between its Ethernet ports for a while after we set the team number. We had to plug the laptop directly into the router in order to complete the wireless configuration properly. The problem did fix itself for no apparent reason, and in the end we had a working Driver Station communicating by radio with a working robot chassis. If the chassis hadn't been missing wheels on one side, we'd have driven it around the shop for a while.
All the messing around with IP addresses on the laptop was unexpectedly tedious, but now that everything is set it shouldn't trouble us further.