topic Re: AP350 Death... in Wireless

AP350 Death...

vectraeee — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 16:45:22 GMT

Hi,

this mornign at work i've done a mistake configuring an Access point Cisco Aironet 350.

I was upgrading the firmware of my access point, but something was wrong and now, when i turn on my access point, it has all the three lights amber color.

I think i need to reload and reinstall and apply the OS.

But i don't know how i can realive my access point, someone could help me?!

Thanks in advance

Re: AP350 Death...

travis-dennis_2 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:55:33 GMT

Just to make sure can you console into the AP and post what you see once it powers up?

Re: AP350 Death...

melisei — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:42:28 GMT

Hi there,

In some 1100 and 1200 troubleshooting manual they say when all 3 LEDs are solid amber that means the firmware is corrupted. And here is the method reccomended to use to fix it.

Good luck,

Follow the steps below to reload the access point image using the CLI. When the access point begins to

boot, you interrupt the boot process and use boot loader commands to load an image from a TFTP server

to replace the image in the access point.

Step 1 Open the CLI using a Telnet session or a connection to the access point console port.

Step 2 Reboot the access point by removing power and reapplying power.

Step 3 Let the access point boot until it begins to inflate the image. When you see these lines on the CLI, press Esc:

Loading "flash:/c350-k9w7-mx.v122_13_ja.20031010/c350-k9w7-mx.v122_13_ja.20031010"

...###########################################################################

Step 4 When the ap: command prompt appears, enter the set command to assign an IP address, subnet mask,

and default gateway to the access point.

Your entries might look like this example:

ap: set IP_ADDR 192.168.133.160

ap: set NETMASK 255.255.255.0

ap: set DEFAULT_ROUTER 192.168.133.1

Step 5 Enter the tftp_init command to prepare the access point for TFTP.

ap: tftp_init

Step 6 Enter the tar command to load and inflate the new image from your TFTP server. The command must

include this information:

• the -xtract option, which inflates the image when it is loaded

• the IP address of your TFTP server

• the directory on the TFTP server that contains the image

• the name of the image

• the destination for the image (the access point Flash)

Your entry might look like this example:

ap: tar -xtract tftp://192.168.130.222/images/c350-k9w7-tar.122-13.JA1 flash:

Step 7 When the display becomes full the CLI pauses and displays --MORE--. Press the spacebar to continue.

extracting info (229 bytes)

c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1/ (directory) 0 (bytes)

c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1/html/ (directory) 0 (bytes)

extracting c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1/html/level1/images/apps_button_last_flat.gif (318

bytes)

-- MORE --

If you do not press the spacebar to continue, the process eventually times out and the access point stops

inflating the image.

Step 8 Enter the set BOOT command to designate the new image as the image that the access point uses when it reboots. The access point creates a directory for the image that has the same name as the image, and

you must include the directory in the command. Your entry might look like this example:

ap: set BOOT flash:/c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1/c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1

Step 9 Enter the set command to check your bootloader entries.

ap: set

BOOT=flash:/c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1/c350-k9w7-mx.122-13.JA1

DEFAULT_ROUTER=192.168.133.1

IP_ADDR=192.168.133.160

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

Step 10 Enter the boot command to reboot the access point. When the access point reboots, it loads the new

image.

ap: boot

Re: AP350 Death...

melisei — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:45:32 GMT

Here are the bootload errors and how they are signaled:

Boot Loader Errors

Amber Amber Amber - Boot failure.

Re: AP350 Death...

vectraeee — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:31:12 GMT

I'm trying to solve the problem, maybe i've found the solution:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/102/wlan/AP1200upgrade.html

Thank however for your support.

Cheers,

Claudio.

Re: AP350 Death...

micheljean — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:42:26 GMT

hi,

I have my AP 1200 having all leds turned amber. I tried your method... But I can't even console or ping my AP when I'm powering it.

Please, help!

Best regards,

Michel

Re: AP350 Death...

miciokatsu — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:52:30 GMT

Hi Melisei,

THANK YOU!!!!!

It is 3:47am here and your answer just solved my AP350 problem (firmware upgrade failed, wiping out the image file resulting in no boot).

I spent the last 1.5 hours trawling thru cisco's documentation with no results ..... fabulous post!!!

THANKS AGAIN!!!