AirLive WLA-9000AP - Manual (Page 98)

5. Web Management 2: System Configuration and Status
91 AirLive WLA-9000AP User’s Manual
5.1.1 WLA-9000AP Emergency Recovery
This section guides to recover your WLA-9000AP system if the firmware crashed.
1. Download the tftp server to your PC. In the following example, we use tftpd32:
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html.
2. Copy the tftpd32.exe of the downloaded file to C:\.
3. Change the IP address of your PC to 192.168.1.254 / 255.255.255.0
4. Copy the WLA-9000AP firmware to C:\ and rename the firmware to “zImage”. Note that
the name must be zImage and no extension.
5. Connect WLA-9000AP and PC with an Ethernet cable.
6. Run the tftpd32.exe. Note that the IP address must be 192.168.1.254.
7. Power on WLA-9000AP, the “Status” LED will light on after 3 seconds.
8. Push the “Reset” button until the “Status” LED off and on again and release the
“Reset”
button.
9. If the above process success, the WLA-9000AP LAN LED keep flashing and the tftp
serve shows file download information.
10. It takes around 5 minutes to download firmware and around 5 minutes to update the
firmware.
11. After a successful recovery, the WLA-9000AP boots up automatically.
12. Try access 192.168.1.1, or the IP address you had changed before.
Repeat the processes again if failed.
The name of firmware must change
to zImage and must be in C:\ (The
same folder as running tftpd.exe)