AirLive WL-5460AP User manual

Emergency Repair with AirLive 11g AP
Applicable Models: WL-5460AP, WL-5450AP, WL-5470AP, WL-5470POE, WH-5420CPE
The following table shows how to judge the state of the AP by looking at its LED.
LED Status Table
Model Normal Condition Firmware Crashed Bootloader Crashed
WL-5450AP,
WLA-5460AP,
WL-5470AP,
WL-5470POE
zWLAN LED will
light up
zStatus LED will be
off
Status LED stay
constantly on
Both Status and
WLAN LED are off
Firmware Crashed: You can use the Emergency upgrade procedure in this section
to restore the AP
Bootloader Crashed: You need to send the unit back to AirLive for repair.
Emergency Firmware Upgrade
The AirLive 11g Access Points features emergency firmware upgrade function that
can restore your AP from a firmware crashed. If you can’t access your AP
anymore, please first try to restore the setting to default by holding the RESET
button (in the back) for more than 5 seconds. You should be able to find the AP
at 192.168.100.252. If you can’t find it and the status LED stays RED after
power-on for 10 minutes, then please perform the emergency upgrade.
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How Emergency Upgrade Works?
The AirLive 11g AP’s flash memory is divided into “firmware” and “bootloader” area.
The bootloader area is protected from writing and has a built-in emergency web server.
Therefore, the AP can be recovered from emergency web server after a firmware crash.
The emergency web server is enabled when AP is forced into emergency upgrade mode,
it’s IP will be found in 192.168.1.6.
Procedure to Restore the AP using Emergency Upgrade
1. Please connect your PC directly to the LAN 1 port of the AP
2. set your PC’s IP address to 192.168.1.100
Fig. 1-1, Assign IP as 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0 onto your computer
Bootloader Area
Flash Memory
Firmware Area
Emergency
Web Server
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3. Before connecting the power, please press and holding the “Reset” button(in the back
of the AP). Then plug in the power. Keep press and hold the Reset button until the
“Status” LED goes off.
Fig 1-2 : Press and hold the reset button while plugging in the power.
6. Keep holding the Reset button until the status LED goes off.
7. Open a browser; type “192.168.1.6” for the website address. The following screen
should show up
8. Click the “Browse” button, select and open the correct firmware file.
9. Click on “UPGRADE” button. After upload succeed, it will shows the message
"Upload OK, Please wait...". Do not touch the AP or PC until the upgrade is
completed.
10. Wait for AP to finish reboot. The status LED will go off after AP finish reboot.
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11. Change your PC’s IP address back to 192.168.100.100
12. Open the web browser, and type “192.168.100.252”. You should see the following
screen.
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