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Chapter23 Troubleshooting
Image Recovery on the 1520 Access Point
To perform image recovery on the 1520 access point, follow these steps:
Step1 With the access point powered off, connect an RJ45 console cable to the console port (). The console
port is the black plastic RJ45 jack inside the unit.
Figure23-1 Connecting an RJ45 Console Cable to the Console Port
Step2 Configure the terminal emulator for 8 databits, no parity, no flow control, 9600 bps.
Step3 Apply power to the access point.
Step4 When the bootloader displays “Base Ethernet MAC Address”, hit the <esc> key to break to the ap:
prompt:
IOS Bootloader - Starting system.
Xmodem file system is available.
flashfs[0]: 13 files, 2 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 31868928
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 9721344
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 22147584
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 20 seconds.
Reading cookie from flash parameter block...done.
Base Ethernet MAC address: 00:1f:27:75:db:00
The system boot has been aborted. The following
commands will finish loading the operating system
software:
ether_init
tftp_init
boot
ap: