Changing Cisco Aironet 1242AG Lightweight to Autonomous

Introduction This is a straightforward way to change a Cisco Aironet 1242AG access point from Lightweight mode to Autonomous mode in a...

Introduction

This is a straightforward way to change a Cisco Aironet 1242AG access point from Lightweight mode to Autonomous mode in a few steps.

Steps (3 total)

1

Downloading the image

To convert it you are going to need to download the image for the autonomous version, this is available for free from Cisco although not the newest version. You go to https://software.cisco.com/download select wireless and then access points. From here you will get a list of all of the different access points. Down load the newest version you can, at this point if you do not have an account you will be prompted to create one or sign in.

2

TFTP server

You are also going to need TFTP server software so you can transfer the image. There is a built in one for Windows, I do not recommend using it though, and I recommend Tftpd32 available here:http://download.cnet.com/Tftpd32/3000-2085_4-10114225.html . It is a very straight forward installation, after installation make sure to select the directory that you downloaded the image to.

3

Installing the new Image

Next we need to log in through the console, you can use your favorite software I like Tera Termhttp://en.osdn.jp/projects/ttssh2/releases/ the default username and password is Cisco, type enable and you will be prompted for a password here we type Cisco. Once this is done we need to load the new image from the TFTP server. Here is the command:
archive download-sw /force-reload /overwrite tftp:// <ip address of TFTP server>/<name of the file> then press enter.

References

• Original How to
• Cisco Paperwork
• Cisco Video Walk through