When will the FX30 get updated to the latest Legato AF, etc.?

Hello Chris,

Still no chance to provide us a reliable, consitent upgrade plan of the FX30 product line? Any chance that the situation will be better in the future? We are not able the plan the next year without this information.

@karlkuhn, I think the main issue is that the FX30 modems are “side product” for some big customers, and that is why it is not (always) in focus and that is why they designed two differnt products, differing only in one interface (serial&ethernet), instead of creating one prodcut with both interfaces. It is maybe benficial for very big projects because of the small price differnce but a hell for many small customers they want to cover both.

Hi Tom, Karl,
We’re targeting towards the end of January given the holiday season is here.

The new release is based off R17 and brings in AVC2 support with Legato 18.06.4 (matching the WP R17).

Hope this helps.
BR,
Chris

Is this the long expected new version?

pavenis@FX30SDEV:/var/www/html$ leaf search wp85 | grep fx30
│ swi-wp85_3.0.1.fx30 │ SDK for WP85 (Release 17 + Legato 18.06.4.fx30) │ installed,wp85,dev │

At least do not seem to work with FX30S 3G. I see 2 problems:

  • mapping serial port do not work (AT!MAPUART? returms 17,0 and I only see /dev/HS0). After reflashing r14 I’m getting /dev/ttyHSL0 without any extra operations likely as I had before trying r17.
  • firewall settings (/etc/iptables.rules) are not applied at startup. Maybe modifications from /mnt/flash/ufs are not yet available when /etc/iptables.rules is read

Hi there,
Unfortunately, no, it’s not the FX30 R17 release. I apologize, but the package naming is confusing. This package is an artifact that is intended to contain the Legato portion only for the FX30 R17 release, but is actually a WP85 package. This is why your firewall rules do not apply properly.

To clarify, the naming convention of the Leaf identifier states the product type: swi-wp85
An FX30 package will be named: swi-fx30

I’ll add an additional post here once the official R17 release is available.

BR,
Chris

Hi Chris,
Any news about the R17? At least a release date that is reliable?
tom

Hi Tom,
Rather than give you another date that might fall through, I’ll provide you a status update on the state of the release.
As you saw above, there was an incorrect Leaf package release that was removed. The package contains some vital bug fixes to the Legato framework in order for R17 for the FX30 can be released.
A new version of Legato will be released and validated with the FX30 R17 packages.
I would expect an end of March to mid-April time frame.
In the meantime, if you absolutely need an R17 version, please contact your FAE or go through your support channel and open a ticket. We can in some cases, provide pre-release firmware.
BR,
Chris

Hi Chris,

An updates on the new release of FX30 3G? If possible please also tell us what to expect with FX30 4G variants.

Thanks

Hi Tom,
The FX30 3G R17 release is making progress. The WP8548 R17 release contains Legato 18.06.4 and undergoes rigorous testing before being externally released. So the FX30 release would normally also include the same Legato version. Because of a critical issue, a new Legato version,18.06.5 has been generated. The Legato version itself has been validated and we are currently validating the respective FX30 software.

I expect about more 2-3 weeks to complete validation and approvals.

There are 4G variants available already:

  • Cat1 with WP7607-1 (EU only)
  • CatMB1/NB-1 with WP7702

BR,
Chris

Hi Chris,
Thx for the info update about the FX30 3G firmware.
Regarding the 4G variants, I meant what could we know about the future firmware upgrade path with my question.

Hi Tom,
I expect R11 for the CatM variant to be released towards the end of May.

Further down the road, we are planning R13 for CatM and R16 for Cat1.

BR,
Chris

Hi Tom,
The 3G R17 release is being targeted for release by the end of this week and should be externally available early next week. Will keep you posted. Sorry for the long delays and thank you for being patient.

The CatM R11 will be following shortly in the next few weeks.

BR,
Chris

Hi Tom et al,

The R17 source code is now available via Leaf with identifier: swi-fx30-3g_1.0.1

Thank you all for your patience.

BR,
Chris

Hi Chris,
Any news on the Catm R11 delivery date?

Regards,
Guillaume

Hi Guillaume,
The CatM R11 should be available around the end of July.
BR,
Chris