Air-cap3702i lightweight to autonomous

[JanWan]

Hi.

What can i do in situation when Flash: dont have enough free space to flash autonomous sw?

Tried with command: archive download-sw /force-reload /overwrite tftp:// ....

Looks like overwrite wont do the trick? Or what i do wrong?

Thanks

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Maybe from console connection, format flash and then load it with autonomous image?

[JanWan]

Yes i did it. Erase flash: command.

But now i cant type any commands on console. It wont regognize anythint i type. Debug capwap console cli wont do anything.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Was the AP rebooted anytime after the flash was erased, but before an replacement IOS was loaded?

Hmm, it's been a while, but I now recall there might be more involved change a LWAP to WAP, or the converse. I do not recall Cisco has documentation for doing conversions (at least from WAP to LWAP, which I needed to do once).

[JanWan]

No there is now nothing. Erase flash: was a bad move from me lol.

Now there is only a bootloader. It wont understand anything i type. Even enable dont work. Default ip is now 10.0.0.1. So does it try to download xxxx.tar.default when mode button boot has done?

If i configure my pc 255.255.255.255 and start tftp server with autonomous image renamed tar.default so would it download it?

I had switch between ap and my pc. Now it dont work anymore because i cant set default gateway anymore on ap.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Perhaps, time to read the manual.

Hope it doesn't require a WLC to get it back.

[Leo Laohoo]

If the autonomous IOS is available then my recommendation is to format the flash of the AP and then convert the AP using the "Mode" button:  Using a TFTP Server to Return to a Previous Release

[JanWan]

Am i getting this right. Manual say i hace to conf tftp server to a range of 10.0.0.2 -10.0.0.30. Ap def ip is 10.0.0.1. But when ap boots up it search ip 255.255.255.255 tftp-server.

Is that 255.255.255.255 ip some broadcast address search?

[Leo Laohoo]

That is correct.

[JanWan]

One question. Can i do this via switch poe-port? Or does ap need to connect to a power suply and connect it directly to pc?

[Leo Laohoo]

PoE will do as long as the instructions are followed correctly.

[JanWan]

But if ap have ip 10.0.0.1 and my pc 10.0.0.3 and poe switch 192.168.1.1. How can i configure default gateway on ap? Or do i change switch ip example 10.0.0.5? Looks like that ap netmask is 255.255.255.254 so pc and switch have to be same?

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

It doesn't matter. Use the MODE button method.
Put the AP and the TFTP server in the same VLAN. That's all.
The MODE button method is meant to be foolproof. A lot of people have used this process without any issues.

[JanWan]

Awesome. Thanks alot. Thanks thanks.
Now new question. How can i log in GUI.? Difficulties to find ip address. Show int say BVI1 ip is unassigned. So how can i find Ap ip?

[Leo Laohoo]

Console into the AP and manually assign an IP address or enable DHCP on your network.