Cisco: Converting an Cisco AP 2600 from Lightweight AP to Autonomous mode

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Cisco, Routing & Switching, Uncategorized, Wireless

This article is about converting a Cisco AP version CAP2602E from a lightweight to Autonomous. (This can apply to other APs of similar models)

The tools that you will need to do the job:

  1. A TFTP server application…I am using Pumpkin (link here)
  2. Telnet tool…I am using Putty (link here)
  3. The Autonomous image for the Cisco AP (note: that the image file name will contain “k9w7“)
  4. Console cable
  5. Network cable
  6. Power adapter for the AP. (If you have a PoE switch to power the AP, then you can skip the adapter)

Now let us begin the process:

  1. Install the TFTP server application and start it up
  2. Install the PUTTY telnet tool
  3. Copy the image to the tftp folder path set in the TFTP server application. The image required for my Cisco AP CAP2602E is “ap3g2-k9w7-tar.153-3.JAB.tar”. Note when you get the image, it will need to be renamed from the image type “.tar” to “.default“. Example in my case, it will be ap3g2-k9w7-tar.default. Please ensure to follow this same syntax.
  4. Connect your AP directly to your computer.
  5. The static IP address of the computer on which your TFTP server software runs should be between 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.30.
  6.  Disconnect power from the access point.
  7. Press and hold MODE while you reconnect power to the access point.
  8. Hold the MODE button until the status LED turns red (approximately 20 to 30 seconds) and then release.
  9. The AP will start to broadcast to the tftp server for the image file. When the tftp server get a prompt from the AP, select Grant Access. (Note if the another image is requested, make a note of the image and try to get it.
  10. Once the image is correct, it will start to pull the image from the TFTP server and it takes about 10 minutes to load.
  11. Once the image has loaded, the AP will reboot.
  12. Then you can use the PUTTY to connect to the console and configure the AP as desired by assigning an IP address to the BVI interface. (default password Cisco/Cisco)
  13. Once the IP address is set, you can access it using the Web GUI.

I hope this article was helpful.

 

reference: https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless-security-and-network/converting-the-air-lap1242ag-e-k9-from-lightweight-to-autonomous/td-p/632837

 

 

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