Yesterday and today I was working on a Cisco Wireless Controller and 13 AP’s which were standalone. I tried to use the convert tool of Cisco to change the AP’s, as this didn’t work on windows 7 x64. I had to look for an other solution.. And came up with the following idea to do.
I logged on to the AP with Telnet or Console cable and I used the following Command in the enable mode:
archive download-sw /force-reload /overwrite tftp://<ip address>/c1240-rcvk9w8-tar.124-21a.JA2.tar
With the Console cable you see the output like below:
examining image... Loading c1240-rcvk9w8-tar.124-21a.JA2.tar from <tftp ip address> (via BVI1): ! extracting info (273 bytes) Image info: Version Suffix: rcvk9w8- Image Name: c1240-rcvk9w8-mx Version Directory: c1240-rcvk9w8-mx Ios Image Size: 2632192 Total Image Size: 2632192 Image Feature: WIRELESS LAN|LWAPP|RECOVERY Image Family: C1240 Wireless Switch Management Version: 3.0.51.0 Extracting files... c1240-rcvk9w8-mx/ (directory) 0 (bytes)O extracting c1240-rcvk9w8-mx/c1240-rcvk9w8-mx (2622783 bytes)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! extracting c1240-rcvk9w8-mx/info (273 bytes) extracting info.ver (273 bytes)!! [OK - 2631680 bytes] Deleting current version... Deleting flash:/c1240-k9w7-mx.123-8.JEA...done. New software image installed in flash:/c1240-rcvk9w8-mx Configuring system to use new image...done. Requested system reload in progress...archive download: takes 28 seconds
After this the AP will look for an Wireless LAN Controller (if you enter the correct names in the DNS the AP’s will find the WLAN Controller)