Currently, new APs cannot successfully pull an image from our Cisco 2800 Mobility Express controller. We have no idea why and are sad about it.
Here's the current procedure to correctly get an image flashed onto an AP and have it properly associate with the controller.
1. Completely erase the flash drive.
From global config mode:
ap# debug capwap console cli ap# erase flash:
From rommon (this takes awhile):
ap: format flash:
2. Boot into ROMMON and issue the following commands:
set IP_ADDR 10.130.27.80 and above set NETMASK 255.255.255.192 set DEFAULT_ROUTER 10.130.27.65 tftp_init ether_init flash_init tar -xtract tftp://144.92.164.71/ap3g2-k9w8-tar.153-3.JK5.tar flash: boot
NOTE: If you encounter an error 'magic number mismatch: bad mzip file' when doing final boot into the new image, then just pull power and reboot, it should work after that.