Trying commenting this again…..try this and see if it works for you.
- Disconnect the switch from the AP/PoE injector
- Disconnect power from the PoE injector
- Connect the AP to the unplugged PoE injector, and press and hold the mode button, make sure you don’t slip off during the boot process.
- Connect the PoE injector to the wall power, continue pressing mode button
- Wait until the counter reaches 21 to 30 seconds and release the mode button
- It should display it is going to do a full factory reset
- Once the reset finishes, you’ll see it scanning channels and attempting CAPWAP discovery process
- Press Return for Username prompt, and login with username and password default credentials cisco, Cisco (lower case username, uppercase pw)
- Type en for enable mode and password is default Cisco (uppercase)
- You should now be able to configure the AP in putty
1) DISCONNECT AP/INJECTOR FROM SWITCH. CONNECT AP TO POE INJECTOR ONLY
2) PRESS AND HOLD MODE BUTTON AND THEN ALSO CONNECT POWER TO WALL ON INJECTOR (CONTINUE PRESSING MODE BUTTON)
Button is pressed. Configuration reset activated..
Keep the button pressed for > 20 seconds for full factory reset
Wait for the button to be released ....
Button pressed for 24 seconds (this will count, continue pressing mode button since power on until this shows 21 seconds then release)
Performing full factory reset..
Setting env for full reset..
SF: Detected MX25L3205D with page size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
Erasing SPI flash....Writing to SPI flash.....done
do_resetb
do_clear fips env
Setting env for configuration reset..
Erasing SPI flash....
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/ ___|(_) ___ ___ ___
| | | |/ __| / __|/ _ \
| |___ | |\__ \| (__| (_) |
\____||_||___/ \___|\___/
_ _ ____ _
| | | | | __ ) ___ ___ | |_
| | | |___| _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_
\___/ |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|
** LOADER **
U-Boot 2013.01-ge1c49d93a (Jul 28 2023 - 09:08:14) SDK version: 2015_T2.0p10
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Factory full reset detected...
DATAWIPE : Initating Data wipe
[*01/01/1970 00:00:32.8229] error: open /dev/cookie
[*01/01/1970 00:00:32.8268] cat: can't open '/COOKIE_PID': No such file or directory
DATAWIPE : Securely clearing files
DATAWIPE : Restoring shared boot variables
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!!!!!! CHANNEL SCANNING AND DICOVERY PROCESS AFTER FACTORY RESET
[*07/04/2019 00:01:36.1385] DOT11_DRV[1]: Started Radio 1
[*07/04/2019 00:01:36.1641] DOT11_CFG[1]: poe_power_mode: low_pwr_mode=6, allowed_tx_ant=3, allowed_rx_ant=3
[*07/04/2019 00:01:36.3218] DOT11_DRV[1]: Stopped Radio 1
[*07/04/2019 00:01:36.3533] DOT11_DRV[1]: DOT11_DRV[1]: set_channel Channel set to 36
[*07/04/2019 00:01:38.0249] DOT11_DRV[1]: Started Radio 1
[*07/04/2019 00:01:39.2025] DOT11_DRV[1]: Stopped Radio 1
[*07/04/2019 00:01:39.2342] DOT11_DRV[1]: DOT11_DRV[1]: set_channel Channel set to 36
[*07/04/2019 00:01:39.5126] DOT11_DRV[1]: DOT11_DRV[1]: Skipping channel set bypass_channel_set:1 radio_reset:0
[*07/04/2019 00:01:40.9152] DOT11_DRV[1]: Started Radio 1
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8770] CAPWAP State: Init
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8784]
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8784] PNP is not required,
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8784] Starting CAPWAP discovery
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8871]
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8872] CAPWAP State: Discovery
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8886] Not sending discovery request, AP does not have an IP!!
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8970]
[*07/04/2019 00:02:42.8970] CAPWAP State: Discovery
[*07/04/2019 00:02:53.7119] ipv6 gw config loop in discovery timer expiry
[*07/04/2019 00:02:55.7120] ipv6 gw config loop in discovery timer expiry
[*07/04/2019 00:02:57.7122] ipv6 gw config loop in discovery
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I PRESSED THE RETURN KEY AND IT GAVE ME USERNAME: PROMPT, SO AUTHENTICATED WITH DEFAULT CREDS cisco, Cisco
Username: cisco
[*07/04/2019 00:03:05.7137] ipv6 gw config loop in Ac discovery
Password:
[*07/04/2019 00:03:07.7138] ipv6 gw config loop in Ac discovery
!!!!!!!!!!!THIS THEN GIVES THE AP DEFAULT NAME> PROMPT, TYPE EN AND PASSWORD DEFAULT Cisco
AP156F.A90D.37DD>en
Password:
[*07/04/2019 00:03:09.7140] ipv6 gw config loop in Ac discovery
AP084F.A90D.37DA#
!!!!!!!!!!!!! AP DEFAULT NAME# NOW HAVE CONFIGURATION ACCESS
Updated diagram to achieve this:
