So I have been thinking of converting an old N AP to a standalone one just for fun. There are a lot articles from Google giving instructions and I have been struggling following those instructions. Eventually I made it work. So below I will write down the steps that work for me. A switch and two Cat5 cables one to the AP and one to the laptop ;. Steps to follow: 1. Install TftpServer on my Macbook Air; 2. Download the standalone version of the image software ck9w7-tar. Configure the TFTP server in the laptop; 4.
Connect your laptop Ethernet cable to the switch and connect the other cable from your AP Ethernet port to the switch. Power on the switch; 6. Next: 7. Google can help you. You can see now see the Terminal is displaying the AP startup messages.
Keep holding the Mode button until you see the AP showing the red light, then release the Mode button. Usename and password are both Cisco. Next, we will see how to configure your AP so that it can serve the wifi clients. AP conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. AP config-if encryption vlan 1 mode ciphers tkip aes-ccm AP config-if channel 1 AP config-if antenna gain AP config-if station-role root AP config-if ssid wifi AP config-if-ssid vlan 1 AP config-if-ssid authentication key-management wpa version 2 AP config-if-ssid guest-mode AP config-if-ssid wpa-psk ascii C!
Nice quick guide. I understand that the was not made to be on a wireless controller. December 25, at pm. December 24, at pm. Pls check the data sheet of this AP model where it listed the different Tx power level it operates.
Depend on the Tx power signal can propagate longer. Hi nayarasi, I have an issue after converted the cisco I access point into autonomous mode. Is it problem with IOS did I need to change the config reg for this issue kindly help me on this. Enrique E said:. January 7, at pm. January 16, at am. January 12, at pm. But when I tried to give command as below :. January 13, at am.
Mary10 said:. January 17, at pm. January 18, at am. January 20, at am. February 11, at am. Arno said:. March 27, at am. May 12, at am. May 14, at am. Is there a mode button available in this AP model to load an image using that method? May 22, at am. May 23, at am. May 26, at am. Agha said:. June 25, at am. Great Article, I been struggling with this dhcp auto renwal issue for quite some time now.
I stumbled upon your suggestion of assigning default gateway in order to delay the dhcp. It worked like charm. June 25, at pm. Kim Pedersen said:. July 9, at pm. July 13, at am. July 21, at am.
After configuring the ip addres on the AP and on my laptop with firewall turned off i still cannot succesfully ping. I am using a PoE switch and both ports in a vlan 5. July 21, at pm. Great said:. July 27, at pm. Great Tricks, was trying this for more than half a day without success. The new C AP keep rebooting before I can finish copying the image file.
This allow the image file to be copied successfully. October 2, at pm. Franco said:. August 14, at am. CJD said:. October 2, at am. Hi, Thanks for the great information.
Would you be willing to explain how to console into the device for the first time? October 5, at pm. Akhil Vijay said:. November 25, at pm. It says I need a valid service contract associated to your Cisco. Not sure how to get that or is there any other source where I can download firmware. November 26, at pm. Ben said:. December 5, at pm. If anyone knows this, please contact me, thank you very much! December 6, at am. January 25, at pm. But I got stuck in the initial step itself.
Here is what I followed 1. Configured pc with ip address Console AP using putty debug capwap console cli ip default-gateway Either IP address is not assigned or assigned IP is wrong. January 27, at pm. Tried this and it worked like charm. It will be great if you include this method also in this tutorial. February 3, at pm. I converted Lightweight to Autonomous as you had mentioned below… AP Then I set the boot system as k9w7.
February 9, at pm. March 3, at am. Anybody have any solution to convert the default mode to Autonoumus? Farhan Ali said:. March 3, at pm. Please let me know if supports Lightweight to Autonomous Mode?
Mykhey Mutua said:. May 1, at am. June 5, at pm. June 6, at am. Pingback: Converting N to autonomous AP — rootekopp. Jean-Christophe Perrault said:. Akan said:. September 27, at am. Please help me convert it. September 27, at pm. September 29, at pm. Ronak Vyas said:. October 28, at pm. The AP would not join after several attempts. WLC IP : Finally, TFTP came to rescue. The AP was at a remote location so I was hesitating from using this step.
But it worked perfectly. Paulo said:. November 18, at pm. Did the Lightweight process Mode to Autonomous, would like to know how to bind the controller. Could you help me please? My access point is a I. November 20, at am. Rodney Forrest said:. February 3, at am. Question…New version would be ck9w7-tar.
I am lost. Robson Oliveira said:. February 17, at am. Rasika, quick question. Looks like is reffering to bug CSCuu Can you tell me the way to do that? February 20, at am. Robson said:. February 20, at pm. Hey Rasika, thanks for the reply, I appreciate. We are running at 8. Do you think updating to. February 24, at pm. Dave said:. May 4, at am. Peter Marks said:. May 9, at am.
Auto Install initiated.. May 9, at pm. May 10, at am. Matt said:. May 17, at pm. Excellent tutorial. I have one further question. The filename is cboot-m. I did this and reloaded but nothing has changed. Are you able to show me the process please? There is little info on the interwebs about this. I have upgraded the IOS successfully using your tutorial. Dekozik said:.
August 13, at am. Also I would assume that is on the same vlan as AP management. Sherry said:. August 31, at am. Awesome man! September 1, at pm. January 10, at pm. Jeff said:. Mark said:. Costas Zervos said:. February 18, at pm. Thank you very much for your very well written posts on Wireless networking. Your site is always my first stop when I am looking for a how to with cisco wireless devices or a better understanding of a concept.
Following this particular article and attempting to convert a C from lightweight to autonomous AP, assigning the IP to the g0 interface did not work for me. I could not ping the tftp server my directly connected mac OS X. Sharing here just in case others are facing the same obstacle. Comment by 2sonik — April 6, AM. Below is the error I keep getting. Did you run into the same issue? If so, what was the fix. It is getting to the image but keeps timing out with the below error.
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Notify me of new posts via email. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. The username is Cisco and the password is Cisco both are case-sensitive If you changed the IP address to something other than I hope this helped someone! Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Comments Hi there, I followed your directions above but am running into the same issue! Thanks in advance!
HI John, Sorry for the delayed reply.
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