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Download Cisco firmware c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA with instructions on how to upgrade to it.
Perhaps a Cisco Access Point has lightweight (lwapp-k9w8) software installed but the full-autonomous (k9w7) software is what is needed. Whatever the reason, follow these steps to install the autonomous firmware on these Cisco Access Points.
Familiarity with Internet Protocol (IP) is a requirement.
Prerequisites
Installing the firmware on the access point requires a DB9-to-RJ45 Cisco console cable as pictured here.
These are also available in USB-to-RJ45.
Download software
Download the Cisco AP 1140 firmware
Configure TFTPD32
4. Configure TFTPD32 (TFTP Server) to bind to the Windows PC IP address (192.168.1.57 in this case) and set the security to Read Only. Make sure the firmware file is available in the Base Directory.
Verify communications port with Windows Device Manager
Confirm the communications port (COM port) on the Windows PC by using Device Manager. In this case, COM1.
Connect AP and PC cables
Plug the Cisco console cable into a communications port (COM port) on the Windows PC and the console port of the access point.
Configure PuTTY to use the chosen COM port. COM1 in this case.
Boot the AP depressing Mode Button
Plug-in the Cisco Access Point while holding its MODE button. Hold the MODE button for 30 seconds. The LED on the access point should turn solid red. At this point release the MODE button and start the PuTTY session. (The LED will blink green then blink red.)
Using PuTTY
PuTTY should look something like this (or, depending on how quickly PuTTY was started, it could be just a black screen with a green square — if so, then hit the ENTER key to show the “ap:” prompt)
using eeprom values
WRDTR,CLKTR: 0x83000800 0xc0000000
RQDC ,RFDC : 0x80000038 0x00000185
using ▒▒▒▒ ddr static values from serial eeprom
ddr init done
IOS Bootloader - Starting system.
FLASH CHIP: Numonyx P33
Checking for Over Erased blocks
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Xmodem file system is available.
DDR values used from system serial eeprom.
WRDTR,CLKTR: 0x83000800, 0xc0000000
RQDC, RFDC : 0x80000038, 0x00000185
PCIE0: link is up.
PCIE0: VC0 is active
PCIE1: link is NOT up.
PCIE1 port 1 not initialized
PCIEx: initialization done
flashfs[0]: 148 files, 7 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 32385024
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 5682176
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 26702848
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 24 seconds.
Reading cookie from system serial eeprom...Done
Base Ethernet MAC address: 60:73:5c:a7:49:bd
Ethernet speed is 1000 Mb - FULL duplex
button is pressed, wait for button to be released...
button pressed for 36 seconds
process_config_recovery: set IP address and config to default 10.0.0.1
process_config_recovery: image recovery
image_recovery: Download default IOS tar image tftp://255.255.255.255/c1140-k9w7-tar.default
examining image...
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/c1140-k9w7-tar.default (connection timed out)
ap: 10. Enter these set commands at the “ap:” prompt (substitute with the IP information of the local area network in use)
ap: set IP_ADDR 192.168.1.2
ap: set NETMASK 255.255.255.0
ap: set DEFAULT_ROUTER 192.168.1.1CLI Configuration
Enter these init commands at the “ap:” prompt:ap:
ap: tftp_init
ap: ether_init
ap: flash_init
Initializing Flash...
...The flash is already initialized.Commands to download and extract the firmware
Issue this tar command to download and extract the firmware from the Windows PC running TFTPD32 (TFTP Server) to the flash memory on the access point:
ap: tar -xtract tftp://192.168.1.57/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA.tar flash:
13. The extraction should look something like this:
extracting info (283 bytes)
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extracting info.ver (283 bytes)Restarting the Access Point
Issue this set BOOT command and restart the device (the access point will use DHCP to configure its IP address)
:ap: set BOOT flash://c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA/c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA
ap: bootConfiguring the AP using Web Browser and password
After the restart and using a web-browser, navigate to the IP address of the access point. When prompted for a user and password enter Cisco for both.
Use the web-browser to configure the access point.
POST COMMENTS
siva tron
ap: tar -xtract tftp://192.168.1.57/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA.tar flash: tftp://192.168.1.57/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA.tar: connection timed out why this happend
PROWARE technologies
You are using the IP addresses in the example. Don’t use the IP addresses in the example. Use the IP addresses of your network.
Jack
ap: tar -xtract tftp://192.168.1.31/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA.tar flash: tftp://192.168.1.31/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA.tar: connection timed out
PROWARE technologies
Try turning off the Windows Firewall of the computer that the AP is trying to TFTP into. Turn the Firewall back on when you done updating the AP.
Ducky
Thanks for this article! I ended up having trouble where it somehow wouldn't let me tftp (or it wasn't setting the IP Address?) I ended up setting my PC to the same subnet (10.0.0.5), renaming the file to "c1140-k9w7-tar.default" and it grabbed it when it sent out the request to tftp://255.255.255.255/c1140-k9w7-tar.default