I have a customer that bought a few AIR-LAP1131AG-A-K9 access points from me, but his client didn't get a wireless LAN controller for them. They want to run them autonomously, and they want to do this quickly.

Any ideas on how this could be pulled off?

Yes this is possible using the TFTP method

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireles ... l#wp161272

-Derek

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[quote="dpocoroba"]Yes this is possible using the TFTP method

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireles ... l#wp161272

-Derek[/quote]

Thanks Derek!

Another way is to do the following:

1. Set your laptop up with an IP address of 10.0.0.2 and a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0.
2. Connect an Ethernet cable between your laptop and an AP (which is powered off).
3. Fire up your favorite TFTP server application.
4. Put the IOS image you want on the AP into the directory that your TFTP application will look for.
5. Rename the IOS image to replace the part after tar with default. Like this:

c1200-k9w7-tar.123-7.JA2.tar to c1200-k9w7-tar.default

6. While holding down the reset button, power up the AP and count to about 30. Release the reset button and it should connect to your laptop and download/un-archive/install the IOS file.
7. Once it's done it will reboot and you're back to the world of autonomous.

This is how I've un-LWAPP'ed or recovered AP's which wouldn't boot due to issues with the IOS image.

I looked around for a link to these steps but couldn't find any. It's been a couple years since I last saw a website showing these steps but after doing it a few hundred times I sort of have it memorized.

Dave

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autonomous can either be that, or LAP,
due to hardware limitations, LAP devices can't be autonomous,

you can convert an autonomous AP to LAP, and back to autonomous
you can't load a full IOS image where LAP is in the product ID