Cisco integrated device IOS upgrade

when working with an Integrated device, such as the 860W/880W the wireless module is complitly separated from the "main" device

so in case we want (or need) to perform an IOS upgrade it needs to be done seperatly for the wireless module,

unlike the regular upgrade this one is a bit more complicated,

first of all acquire an image, it comes as a "tar" archive and upload it to the cisco,

make sure to upload it to the module and not to the main device.

I done this by ftp, looks like that :

Cisco-AP# copy ftp:upload/ap801-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar flash:

Address or name of remote host [10.0.0.2]?

Source filename [/upload/ap801-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar]?

Destination filename [ap801-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar]?

Accessing ftp://10.0.0.2/upload/ap801-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar...

Loading /upload/ap801-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OK - 6635520/4096 bytes]

Now that we have the file, we enter bootloader mode and extract it,

Done from the main device

Cisco# service-module wlan-ap 0 reset bootloader

Now log in to the module

Cisco# service-module wlan-ap 0 session

You will not be able to use regular Cisco commands, run the following :

ap: tar -xtract flash:ap801-k9w7-tar.124-25d.JA1.tar flash:

after a few minutes of work it will finish the extract and verify the files,

now all we have to do is load the new IOS and verify it works,

ap: dir flash:

Directory of flash:/

4    drwx  256       <date>               ap801-k9w7-mx.124-21a.JA1

152  -rwx  5         <date>               private-config

156  -rwx  1048      <date>               private-multiple-fs

158  drwx         384   Jan 1 1970 00:09:36 +00:00  ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1

ap: dir flash:ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1

            Directory of flash:ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1/

159  drwx  64        <date>               html

303  -rwx  5692562   <date>               ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1

304  -rwx  174876    <date>               8001.img

305  -rwx  15352     <date>               A5.bin

306  -rwx  1616      <date>               A2.bin

307  -rwx  286       <date>               info

ap: boot flash:ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1/ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1

Loading "flash:ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1/ap801-k9w7-mx.124-25d.JA1"...##################

And in case it loades ok and works as it soould remove the old IOS to make sure the module boot to the new one directly,

Cisco-AP#show flash:

Directory of flash:/

    4  drwx         256   Jan 1 1970 00:07:40 +00:00  ap801-k9w7-mx.124-21a.JA1

Cisco-AP# delete /force /recursive flash: ap801-k9w7-mx.124-21a.JA1


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