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How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

dgrossi0914 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:31:43 GMT

How do you enable radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 because when I try to connect to it through a browser using http://(The IP Address from the show ip interface brief command) it says connection refused and the output of the putty terminal says the following:

Not in Bound state.
*Mar 1 00:08:55.558: %CAPWAP-3-DHCP_RENEW: Could not discover WLC. Either IP address is not assigned or assigned IP is wrong. Renewing DHCP IP.
*Mar 1 00:08:59.014: %DHCP-6-ADDRESS_ASSIGN: Interface BVI1 assigned DHCP address 10.18.90.105, mask 255.255.255.0, hostname AP00f2.8b81.3bbc

The log from putty is attached below and a screenshot from the browser is attached from attempting to connect with http(s).
Translating "CISCO-CAPWAP-CONTROLLER.dscsrouter.com"...domain server (209.18.47.61) (209.18.47.62)
Not in Bound state.
*Mar 1 00:08:55.558: %CAPWAP-3-DHCP_RENEW: Could not discover WLC. Either IP address is not assigned or assigned IP is wrong. Renewing DHCP IP.
*Mar 1 00:08:59.014: %DHCP-6-ADDRESS_ASSIGN: Interface BVI1 assigned DHCP address 10.18.90.105, mask 255.255.255.0, hostname AP00f2.8b81.3bbc

Translating "CISCO-CAPWAP-CONTROLLER.dscsrouter.com"...domain server (209.18.47.61) (209.18.47.62)

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

Leo Laohoo — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:37:22 GMT

@dgrossi0914 wrote:

*Mar 1 00:08:55.558: %CAPWAP-3-DHCP_RENEW: Could not discover WLC. Either IP address is not assigned or assigned IP is wrong. Renewing DHCP IP.
*Mar 1 00:08:59.014: %DHCP-6-ADDRESS_ASSIGN: Interface BVI1 assigned DHCP address 10.18.90.105, mask 255.255.255.0, hostname AP00f2.8b81.3bbc

DHCP Option 43 is not enabled.

What happens if you enter the command "capwap ap primary-base <WLC NAME> <WLC IP ADDRESS>"?

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

dgrossi0914 — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:43:02 GMT

How can I do this command if the WLC has no name that I know of? For
instance, you said enter capwap ap primary-base
ADDRESS>, but as far as I know the WLC has no name yet. However, it does
have an IP address of 10.18.90.105 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
because of DHCP. How can i give the WLC a name? Can I give the WLC a name
by using the command "hostname or do I have to do it
some other way. Keep in mind that I haven't taken any CCNA Wireless classes
and the University I'm attending teaches CWNA Wireless instead. Also, keep
in mind that I haven't done any Wireless labs as part of CCNA Phase III
because the instructor made up some bullcrap excuse that he thought we need
to do a troubleshooting lab instead at the Community College I attended to
get my three CNAS Associate Degrees. Also, keep in mind that this Wireless
AP won't let me elevate to global configuration and I don't think it will
let me use the command "hostname ", so how am I supposed
to do that if that's the command I'm supposed to use?

Sincerely,

dgrossi0914

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

Scott Fella — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:21:02 GMT

The ap you have required a wlc. Do you have a wlc that supports the ap you have?

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

dgrossi0914 — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:03:00 GMT

Dear Cisco,

No I don't have a freaking Wireless Lan Controller, because I shouldn't
need one. Considering that all I should need is a serial rollover cable
connection, an ethernet connection to a router or switch or all in one
router switch with DHCP enabled with or without Power Over Ethernet, and a
power adapter just in case I can't get a router or switch connection with
Power Over Ethernet. Now my freaking problem is that the instructor who
teaches wireless networking based on CWNA instead of CCNA Wireless at this
University told me to try to press and hold the reset button on the Cisco
AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access Point, so I did it and now all the Access
Point does is display a black screen in putty, it won't save my output in
putty, and the light on top just flashes green, red, and orange.

Please help, so I can finally pass this wireless class that I failed by 1
percent of a letter grade in Fall of 2016 and that I got ripped off on Ebay
of $70 on a AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 that was all bashed up in 2017 or 2018. This
is my third Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access Point that I finally
got new, but the radios are disabled and now it's probably stuck in rommon
except it only shows a blackscreen while flashing green, red, orange from
the light on top.

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

patoberli — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:41:24 GMT

The main problem here is that you have an AP which is using a lightweight image. These APs require a WLC to work, without they show the behavior you saw. When you order them, you could select between autonomous (doesn't need a WLC) and lightweight (requires a WLC). This has changed a little bit since the 802.11acW2 series (2800, 3800, …).

Anyway to your problem, you don't get any output in putty, not even while powering it on?
Have you selected 9600 baud as the serial speed?
How is it powered?

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

TsvetanVladimirov81607 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:24:49 GMT

The rommon mode also displays output in putty. Check your console connection.
The changing lights as per the documentation means that the AP is still booting up.

The proper way to factory reset the AP is to turn it off, press the mode button and hold it, then power on the AP. Keep the mode button pressed for 10 seconds and release. After that you should have your AP reset.

Check if you can see it with CDP on the switch that it is connected.

If it starts working and gets an IP address ->
Here is a useful link on the conversion, that will give you an idea:

https://www.speaknetworks.com/converting-cisco-wireless-access-point-lightweight-mode-autonomous-mode-vice-versa/

The radios on your AP wont come up until the AP joins a Controller which you do not have.

If you are lucky the AP might contain an autonomous image already.

Show us the contents with the command "show flash:" or "show dir"

Hope any of that information helps.

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

dgrossi0914 — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:41:48 GMT

Dear Cisco aka Leo Laohoo,

I tried what you said here based on the link you shared with it, but it did
not work or help regardless of if what I was holding the mode button
slipped off the mode button before the last 10 seconds of holding the mode
button after powering on the Wireless Access Point after holding the mode
button for 1 minute before powering it on by plugging the Wireless Access
Point to an adapter or Power Over Ethernet device:

The rommon mode also displays output in putty. Check your console
connection.
The changing lights as per the documentation means that the AP is still
booting up.

The proper way to factory reset the AP is to turn it off, press the mode
button and hold it, then power on the AP. Keep the mode button pressed for
10 seconds and release. After that you should have your AP reset.

Check if you can see it with CDP on the switch that it is connected.

If it starts working and gets an IP address ->
Here is the somewhat useful link on the conversion, that will give you
provided in the email to give me an idea:

https://www.speaknetworks.com/converting-cisco-wireless-access-point-lightweight-mode-autonomous-mode-vice-versa/

The radios on your AP wont come up until the AP joins a Controller which
you do not have and I do not because I did this before in Class with a
Cisco AIR-1602I-A-K9 by using only POE with a connection to the College
Campus to provide a DHCP ip address and I did it with a Cisco AIR-CAP
2602I-A-K9 to using either a Cisco 3560v2 switch to provide the POE and
DHCP ip address using Inter-Vlan configuration at least from Version 7 of
the CCNP IP Switch Lab manual or a Cisco Small Business RV042G Router with
built switch and a adapter except the Cisco AIR-CAP2602I-A-K9 can't do
WPA-AES-TKIP or WPA2-AES-TKIP Personal encryption instead of WPA-AES-TKIP
WPA2-AES-TKIP Enterprise Encryption that either can't be administers
locally or I couldn't figure how to administer WPA-AES-TKIP WPA2-AES-TKIP
Enterprise Encryption locally.

I tried someone else's suggestion of just holding the mode button for 1
minute without powering the Wireless Access Point on and letting go of mode
button as well as then powering it on with either Power Over Ethernet or an
adapter and it worked one time until I tried to access the gui using
Microsoft's Edge Browser with the http protocol instead of Google Chrome
that won't run anymore for some reason, which using Google Chrome instead
of Microsoft's Edge Browser should make that much of a difference
considering it usually works about the same now or just as well with the
similar results as it has improved over Microsoft's Internet Explorer's
problems except it said failed to connect instead of just this connection
is not secure being another problem until I fix that problem too.

Here is the lab from the class I'm trying to make sure I can practice in
spare time instead of just going to school early before class to practice
too, so hopefully I'll finally pass the skill final and the written final
instead of failing by 1 percent of a grade point, which is attached below.

If you are lucky the AP might contain an autonomous image already.

Show us the contents with the command "show flash:" or "show dir"

Hope any of that information helps.

Re: How do you enable the Radios on a Cisco AIR-CAP1602I-A-K9 Wireless Access

patoberli — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:05:23 GMT

This text is quite hard to read, as you mix the previous answer with it. Could you maybe edit the text and modify your own word by making them bold or cursive? Thanks