I just want to say, i will be trying this out. i just got a 881w off of ebay. ill be using it for fun, and for a home router solution.
isp(comcast)--->docsis3 modem--->881w~~~>wireless bridge in the computer room--->switch--->pc's
and isp(comcast)--->docsis3 modem--->881w~~~>wireless laptops, gaming devices etc...
last night, before i found your article, i was able to console in over serial. usb>serial is a good thing. but cisco needs to upgrade to usb console.
first thing i did was power on the router and reset it to factory defaults.
then
en
service-module wlan-ap 0 reset default-config
service-module wlan-ap 0 reset
after that, to begin testing i connected a current connection to the FE/4 wan port
and my pc(win7ultx64) to fe/0
first, no DHCP on the 881w by default. so second i manually set my IP to 10.10.10.4 255.255.255.248
i am not able to access or ping the router.
so i do a sh run and it tels me that all the ports are shut
so i do a no shut on fe/4 and fe/0
then on fe/4 router#(confit-if)ip address dhcp
i can then see it is assigned an ip address from my network. 192.168.0.xxx
from here, i still dont have access to the web interface.
so i have to go to router#(config) and do
ip http server
ip http secure-server
ip http authentication local
and doing line vty 0 4
transport input telnet
transport input telnet ssh
from this point i am able to access CP from the WAN address using a seperate machine on the existing network.
i can do some basic things in there like set the vlan1 ip and subnet
turn on dhcp etc.
the wireless tab lets me set the ap hostname
so i then change my machine back to DHCP while connected to fe/0 and i get an ip address in the 10.10.10.100 10.10.10.150 range which i set in CP from the other computer.
so from my machine i am able to hit the web interface from 10.10.10.1
!now this is where i get messed up!
i am not able to access the AP web interface as i need to replace the IOS
so via console i do
int wlan-ap0
ip address 10.10.10.20 255.255.255.0
and here i get a conflict saying it is in the range of vlan1
so i set it to 10.10.20.1 255.255.255.0
service-module wlan-ap 0 session
from there i get
ap#
from this i need to TFTP back to my desk and get the new IOS loaded but i cannot ping my desk on ip 10.10.10.100 as it says it is un avaialbe
so i do a ctrl^6 x disconnect
and at router# i can ping 10.10.10.100 succesfully
so that is where i am at.
also, not as important as i will figure it out once i get gui access to the ap.
i cannot get to the outside world from my dektop--->switch--->wireless bridge~~~>881w--->modem--->isp
i assume that is because i do not have NAT setup but i dont know.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
