Since it expecting same default filename you have to make sure correct file renames depend on you are doing LAP-> AAP or AAP->LAP conversion process. Below shows the how it should be renamed. Now you need to rename these in order to load it to AP when it is resetting using mode button. In this example I am using 3500 series AP & therefore I have downloaded & files onto my TFTP server. As you can see below certain AP models are having common images (like 2600,3600 or 1040, 1140 or 1260,3500) for this purpose. So if you keep a Autonomous image file with the correct named syntax, AP will load that image once we do this.īefore starting we will look at some of the AP model Autonomous & Lightweigth recovery images. In this scenario, AP is looking for a specifically named image file to load. In our case, even the firmware is not corrupted, we can use this button to load an image from a TFTP server.

You can use this mode/reset button when you do not know password or your AP firmware is corrupted,etc. Number 1 in the below diagram shows this Reset button of the given AP.

In this post we will see how to do the same task using Mode/Reset button of the Access point. If you already read one of my previous post ( Lightweight to Autonomous (vice versa) Conversion…) you may konw one way of doing this AP conversion.

Extract software version from cisco ap