Changing a WAP from Lightweight mode to Autonymous mode

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So you're sick of cheap ass wireless access points and you've bought yourself a Cisco Air-LAP1142-X-XX off eBay. To your dismay, it's in Lightweight mode and needs a Cisco wireless controller. Fear not, as you can convert it to autonomous mode pretty easily, as long as you have a Cisco support account that will allow you to download the latest firmware. If you do, download it. You will need a TFTP server of some sort (there are plenty of them for you to find on the internet).

Assuming you know the enable password on the LAP device, do the following:

1. Get into enable mode: 

en

2. Go into the debug mode to get the full range of commands: 

debug capwap console cli

3. Download the the latest firmware from your TFTP server 

archive download-sw /overwrite /force-reload tftp://X.X.X.X/XXXX-k9w7-XXXXXXX.tar

It will reboot itself when it's done and it will now be in Autonomous mode.

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