Emergency firmware recovery – AirLive Air3G User Manual
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9. Emergency Firmware Recovery
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AirLive Air3G User’s Manual
The Air3G 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 10 seconds. You
should be able to find the AP at 192.168.1.254. If you can’t find it, then please perform the
emergency upgrade. Please visi
->support->download and type “Air3G” to
the download page.
How Emergency Upgrade Works?
Air3G’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
changed to
192.168.1.254.
Procedure to Restore the AP using Emergency Upgrade
1. Please connect one of your LAN Ports (LAN1~LAN4) to your PC directly.
2. Set your PC’s IP address to 192.168.1.50
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
LED of the selected port goes on(about 3 seconds)
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Emergency Firmware
Recovery
Bootloader Area
Flash Memory
Emergency
Web Server
Firmware Area