In my last post we looked at how to fix the corrupted IOS in a Cisco 1250 Wireless Access Point, the other way of recovering the corrupted IOS is by again by using a solar winds TFTP server, but in this procedure the access point loads itself the image file from the TFTP server. In order do so follow the below mentioned steps.

Step 1

Configure the PC with Solar Winds TFTP server with a class A Static IP Address range of 10.0.0.2 to 10.0.0.30.

Step 2

Make sure that the PC with the solar winds TFTF server contains the Cisco 1250 Wireless Access Point IOS image file (such as c1250-k9w7-tar.124-21a.JA1 in the Solar Winds TFTP server folder) and the TFTP server is activated.

Step 3

Rename the Cisco 1250 Wireless Access Point IOS image file in the solar winds TFTP server folder to the default image name –c1250-k9w7-tar.default for a Cisco 1250 Wireless Access Point.

Step 4

Connect the PC with solar winds TFTF server to the Cisco 1250 Access point with a  Category 6or Cat5 Ethernet cable (straight cable).

Step 5

Disconnect power from the Cisco 1250 Access point.

Step 6

Press and hold the MODE button while you reconnect power to the Cisco 1250 Access point.

Step 7

 Hold the MODE button until the status LED turns red (approximately 20 to 30 seconds), and release the MODE button until the console indicates

Button is pressed; wait for button to be released

Once you release the button you will see the Cisco 1250 Access Point starts downloading the default IOS image from Solar wind TFTP sever as shown below

Step 8

Wait until the Cisco 1250 access point reboots as indicated by all LEDs turning green followed by the Status LED blinking green.

Step 9

After the Cisco 1250 access point reboots, reconfigure the access point using the Command Line Interface (CLI) or GUI.

Also check demonstrated video to recover the IOS in Cisco 1250 Access Point.

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In my previous post  I was talking about how to fix the corrupted IOS in Cisco 1250 Series Wireless Access Point. Now in this series let’s see how to fix the solution to fix the corrupted IOS in Cisco 1250 Series Wireless Access Point.

In the previous post we know that whenever an IOS is missing in the Cisco Wireless Access Point you will get the following error

The system is unable to boot automatically because there are no bootable files.

Followed by the promt

ap:

There are two ways to fix this problem, in this post I will show you how to fix the problem   by transferring the IOS file to the Cisco Access Point using a TFTP server.

Whenever you boot you IOS corrupted Cisco Access Point and when you get following error at the command prompt

ap:

Connect the corrupted access point to any Cisco Catalyst Switch and also connect your PC with a solar winds TFTP server installed to the same switch with the same subnet. In the following example we are configuring the IP address for the PC with Solar winds TFTP server and corrupted access point as follows

Follow the below mentioned steps

Step 1:

Assign the ip address, netmask and default gateway to the IOS corrupted access point by using set command as shown below.

ap:set IP_ADDR 10.0.0.10

ap:set NETMASK 255.255.248.0

ap:set DEFAULT_ROUTER 10.0.0.10

Step 2:

Initialized the TFTP server in the Cisco Access point by entering “tftp_init” command

ap: tftp_init

 Step 3:

Download the IOS image file for Cisco 1250 Series Access Point from Cisco Web Site (CCO id is required) and remove the file extension (.tar) as shown and copy the file to solar winds TFTP server directory.

Step 4:

Make sure that the solar winds TFTF server is started and the downloaded the IOS image file is placed in the TFTP server directory.

Step 5:

Extract the IOS file downloaded into the Cisco Access Point by using “tar -xtract” command to inflate the image file from your TFTP Server.

ap:  tar –xtract  tftp://10.0.0.8/c1250-k9w7-tar.124-10b.JDA3 flash:

Step 6:

Once the whole IOS file is extracted the set the boot path in your IOS corrupted Cisco Access Point as shown below

ap:  set BOOT flash: c1250-k9w7-mx.124-10b.JDA3/ c1250-k9w7-mx.124-10b.JDA3

Step 7:

Then you boot your Cisco Wireless Access Point by using a “boot’ command.

ap:  boot

Once the Cisco Wireless Access Point is booted you will see no errors and its working fine. I have also uploaded the video as well which might help you to recover the IOS in a Cisco 1250 Access Point. Same procedure can be applied on other Cisco Access Points as well with proper IOS files. 

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