May 17

When trying to convert an 1142 AP from LAP to Autonomous AP, I did a mistake. I copied the new IOS
(.tar) with the copy-command. However, I shouldve used the archive /xtract-command. When I
reloaded, the AP presented me with this;
using

eeprom values

WRDTR,CLKTR: 0x87000800 0x40000000

RQDC ,RFDC : 0x80000037 0x0000020c

using ???? ddr static values from serial eeprom

ddr init done

Running Normal Memtest...

Passed.
IOS Bootloader - Starting system.
FLASH CHIP:

Numonyx P33

Checking for Over Erased blocks

...........................
Xmodem file system is available.

DDR values used from system serial eeprom.

WRDTR,CLKTR: 0x87000800, 0x40000000
RQDC, RFDC : 0x80000037, 0x0000020c

PCIE0: link is up.

PCIE0: VC0 is active
PCIE1: link is up.

PCIE1: VC0 is active

PCIEx: initialization done
flashfs[0]: 4 files, 1 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 32385024
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 5760512
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 26624512
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 19 seconds.
Reading cookie from system serial eeprom...Done
Base Ethernet MAC address: 12:34:56:78:ab:cd
Ethernet speed is 100 Mb - FULL duplex
Loading "flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar"...flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar: magic
number mismatch: bad mzip file

Error loading "flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar"

Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.

Boot process failed...

The system is unable to boot automatically.

The BOOT

environment variable needs to be set to a bootable

image.

C1140 Boot Loader (C1140-BOOT-M) Version 12.4(23c)JA3, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Compiled Tue 18-Oct-11 14:51 by prod_rel_team

ap:

So. No IOS. What to do? Do I really have to use a slow xmodem-transfer to recover this AP? I thought I
did, but there is a way to avoid it. Make sure the AP has network-connectivity to an TFTP-server (in my
case, 10.10.10.10). Then issue the following commands;
ap: set IP_ADDR 10.10.10.20

ap: set NETMASK 255.255.255.0

ap: set DEFAULT_ROUTER 10.10.10.1

ap: tftp_init

Then we delete the current IOS (.tar). We are now ready to copy the new IOS (and properly this time).
Issue the following command;
ap: delete flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar
Are you sure you want to delete "flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar" (y/n)?y
File "flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar" deleted

ap: tar -xtract tftp://10.10.10.10/c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar flash:

<long list of files extracted>

Then we boot the newly extracted IOS;

ap: boot
Loading "flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar"...flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar: no such
file or directory

Error loading "flash:c1140-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar"

Interrupt within 5 seconds to abort boot process.

Loading "flash:/c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1/c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1"...############

File "flash:/c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1/c1140-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1" uncompressed and installed,

entry point: 0x4000
executing...

Success!