Turning on AP without autoboot

Start the PuTTY serial connection, connect power to the AP, and monitor the messages from your serial connection while the AP is booting up.

When you see the message “Hit <Enter> to stop autoboot:“, immediately press enter. You’ll have about five seconds to stop autoboot. If you fail to stop autoboot, simply disconnect the power to the AP, and then reconnect the power and try again.

After you’ve stopped autoboot, you should be at the command prompt for apboot and will need to enter the AP console password. The default username is “admin” and password is “admin[serial_number]“, replacing “[serial_number]” with the device’s actual serial number. For example, the password for a device with serial number “CSFGA4ECS8” would be “adminCSFGA4ECS8”. You can locate the serial number on the sticker on the front or back of the device.

After you’ve entered the username and password, make sure the command prompt is for apboot. The commands for converting the AP won’t work in a regular user session after autoboot has started.

Setting country code of AP

Now that you’re in the command prompt before apboot has started, you’ll need to set the country code for the AP.

Use SHA1 to generate a hashcode of the string “US-AP-[serial_number]”, replacing “[serial_number]” with your actual serial number. If you’re not in the United States, use “RW-AP-[serial_number]”. You can use the website http://www.sha1-online.com/ to generate the hashcode.

For example, an AP in the US with a serial number of CSFGA4ECS8 would use the string US-CSFGA4ECS8, and the SHA1 hashcode would be 3ebee240a48eae0691b3693f082159ed93b49057.

Set the AP’s country code by entering the command proginv system ccode CCODE-[hashcode], replacing [hashcode] with your SHA1 encoded string. Continuing the above example:

# Example command using hashcode generated for US AP with serial number CSFGA4ECS8

proginv system ccode CCODE-US-3ebee240a48eae0691b3693f082159ed93b49057

Unlocking AP flash memory

Unlock the AP’s flash memory:

invent -w

Setting IP address of AP and TFTP

Either get an IP address for the AP using DHCP or set a static IP address:

# The below command will get an IP address using DHCP 
dhcp

# If DHCP does not work, you can set a static IP address
setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.3

Set the IP address of the TFTP server:

setenv serverip 192.168.1.101

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