Yes, I understand, the hardware is retired and not supported. I'm trying to understand however, why this device is virtually erased. Lots of products get retired, but the old firmware is still there, maybe archived, but accessible. There are still a bunch of these out there.
I have one I'm tyring to use at home. It works fine, I've got it connected to another switch and configured, except it's still at 3.6.7, and now I'm discovering the 3802's I've got have firmware slightly too new for it, and I also see that the firmware that would be compatible with the controller is also not available. So I can neither update the one or downgrade the others. Considering these were both fairly expensive devices at one point, I can only imagine this total black-out of software versions in these ranges must be for the company to avoid legality problems?
Is there any alternative or workarounds? Obviously I don't need or can afford new enterprise class equipment for a home network, even this old retired device is overkill, but when the hardware I have is still operational, I hate the thought of just having to trash it (not to mention the waste of money, not that it was exorbitant, I bought the controller for $30) as it would be vastly better than the Wifi network I have, and it's kind of neat classic device I had used in the past at work.
