Converting 1250 APs between autonomous and LWAPP

It took me a while to get this information, so thought I'd share. Here it is:
You cannot use the upgrade tool to do the IOS to LWAPP for the 1250 APs.
Here is a method to do the conversion.
*Method 1 : ( Mode Button )*
1. Install an external TFTP tool such as tftpd32 tool from http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
2. Assign IP address in the range 10.0.0.x ( Ex : 10.0.0.3)to the server.
3. Download the IOS to lwapp image onto the tftp's root directory. Use http://www.cisco.com
4. Make sure you set the IP address on the BVI interface of the AP if
not set.Set it in the 10.0.0.x range.
5. Connect the Ethernet port on AP to your TFTP Server ( Laptop )
5. Hold the mode button and power off the AP.
6. Power back the AP while continually holding the mode button for 20-30
seconds.
*Method 2 : ( Archive Command )
*1. Install an external TFTP tool such as tftpd32 tool from http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
2. Assign IP address in the range 10.0.0.x ( Ex : 10.0.0.3)to the server.
3. Download the IOS to lwapp image onto the tftp's root directory. Use http://www.cisco.com
4. Make sure you set the IP address on the BVI interface of the AP if
not set.Set it in the 10.0.0.x range.
5. Connect the Ethernet port on AP to your TFTP Server ( Laptop )
6. On AP, type archive download-sw /overwrite /force-reload tftp://192.168.5.210/c3201-k9w7-tar.124-3.JK2.tar
Going the other way (lwapp to autonomous)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/access_point/conversion/lwapp/upgrade/guide/lwapnote.html#wp161272
If you need to manually "prime" the LWAPP:
AP#lwapp ap ip address <IP address> <subnet mask>
AP#lwapp ap ip default-gateway <IP-address>
AP#lwapp ap controller ip address <IP-address>
AP#lwapp ap hostname <name>
(optional)
Hope someone finds this useful!

The problem here is that you can't have any fast roaming since you have autonomous and LAP's. The thing is... the phone is associated to a LAP and the mac is known on the trunk port of the wlc, then the phone roams to the autonomous AP and the LAP and IOS AP don't communicate so there is no smooth hand off. Phone has to re-associate or re-authenticate and the mac shows up on both ports until the arp times out. For VoIP, a mixed environment is not supported.

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I am new to these 2 terms.
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If I need to deploy an wireless enironment, I should use LWAPP, right?

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns348/ns337/networking_solutions_white_paper0900aecd802c18ee.shtml
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Also, when I start the upgrade tool, it says that a TFTP server is already running on the PC so it will start the application with "User external TFTP" option, however there is not TFTP running on my PC. Why this error is coming? Following is the snapshot of the error.
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Take a look at these links as it will explain how to convert the AP's.
Using a TFTP Server to Return to a Previous Release
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-18268
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/access_point/conversion/lwapp/upgrade/guide/lwapnote.html#wp160918
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ_NuxdRhQ4
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-14960
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And as i know, all sql constant must use where coulmn=N'constans value' format.
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You should download JDBC driver of Oracle 10g from Oracle site and use that driver instead.
After I changed the driver, I now have no problem of getting Korean characters from the database.
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Fail to convert between UTF8 and UCS2: failUTF8Conv

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especially $ & ( 4 8 < = > from WE8ISO8859P1 and from WE8ISO8859P15.
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Hi all,
I am writing a servlet that connects to Oracle 8.0.6 through jdbc for jdk1.2 on NT 4.0
English version and it works fine.
But when the servlet is deployed to a solaris with Oracle 8.0.5 (not a typo, the oracle on
NT is 8.0.6 and oracle on solaris is 8.0.5) and jdbc for jdk1.2 (of course, for Solaris),
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in previous segment of the same method):
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while (rs.next()) {
out.println("id = " + rs.getInt("id"));
System.out.println("id written");
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exception is thrown
System.out.println("name written");
} catch (java.sql.SQLException e) {
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create table test(
id number(10,0),
name varchar2(30));
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At first I would expect there are some strange code shown on the web page rather than having
an exception. I know that I should use getBytes to convert between different encodings, but
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One more piece of information: When all the rows contains ascii characters in their "name"
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If anyone knows why and how to tackle the problem please let me know. You can feel free to
send email to me at [email protected]
Many thanks,
Ben
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Hi all,
For the problem I previously posted, I found that Oracle had had such bug filed before in Oracle 7.3.2 (something like that) and is classified to be NOT A BUG.
A further research leads me to the document of Oracle that the error message:
"java.sql.SQLException: Fail to convert between UTF8 and UCS2: failUTF8Conv"
is a JDBC driver error message of error number ORA-17037.
I'm still wondering why this behaviour will happen only in Solaris platform. The servlet on an NT machine I am using (which has an Oracle 8.0.6 and jdbc for jdk 1.2 running) is working just fine. I also suspect that this may be some sort of mistakes from jdbc driver.
Nevertheless, I have found a way to work around the problem that I cannot get non-English string from Oracle in Solaris and I would like to share it with you all here.
Before I go on, I found that there are many people out there on the web that encounter the same problem. (Some of which said s/he has been working on this problem for a month). As a result, if you find this way of working around the problem does help you, please tell those who have the same problem but don't know how to tackle. Thanks very much.
Here's the way I work it out. It's kinda simple, but it does work:
Instead of using:
String abc = rs.getString("SomeColumnContainsNonEnglishCharacters");
I used this:
String abc = new String(rs.getBytes("SomeColumnContainsNonEnglishCharacters"));
This will give you a string WITH YOUR DEFAULT CHARSET (or ENCODING) from your system.
If you want to convert the string read to some other encoding type, say Big5, you can do it like this:
String abc = new String(rs.getBytes("SomeColumneContainsNonEnglishCharacters"), "BIG5");
Again, it's simple, but it works.
Finally, if anyone knows why the fail to convert problem happens, please kindly let me know by leaving a word in [email protected]
Again, thanks to those of you who had tried to help me out.
Creambun
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by creambun creambun ([email protected]):
Hi all,
I am writing a servlet that connects to Oracle 8.0.6 through jdbc for jdk1.2 on NT 4.0
English version and it works fine.
But when the servlet is deployed to a solaris with Oracle 8.0.5 (not a typo, the oracle on
NT is 8.0.6 and oracle on solaris is 8.0.5) and jdbc for jdk1.2 (of course, for Solaris),
the servlet failed with the Exception:
java.sql.SQLException: Fail to convert between UTF8 and UCS2: failUTF8Conv
(I am using JRun 3.0 as the application and web server for both NT and Solaris)
(The database in both the NT and solaris platform are using UTF8 charset)
My servlet looks like this: (dbConn is a Connection object proved to be connected to Oracle
in previous segment of the same method):
String strSQL = "SELECT * FROM test";
try { Statement stmt = dbConn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.execute(strSQL);
while (rs.next()) {
out.println("id = " + rs.getInt("id"));
System.out.println("id written");
out.println("name = " + rs.getString("name")); // <-- this is the line the
exception is thrown
System.out.println("name written");
} catch (java.sql.SQLException e) {
System.out.println("SQL Exception");
System.out.println(e);
The definition of the "test" table is:
create table test(
id number(10,0),
name varchar2(30));
There are about 10 rows exists in the table "test", in which all rows contains ONLY chinese
characters in the "name" field.
And when I view the System log, the string "id written" is shown EXACTLY ONCE and then there
is:
SQL Exception
java.sql.SQLException: Fail to convert between UTF8 and UCS2: failUTF8Conv
That means the resultset is fetch back from the database correctly. The problem arise only
during the getString("name") method.
Again, this problem only happens when the servlet is run on the solaris platform.
At first I would expect there are some strange code shown on the web page rather than having
an exception. I know that I should use getBytes to convert between different encodings, but
that's another story.
One more piece of information: When all the rows contains ascii characters in their "name"
field, the servlet works perfectly even in solaris.
If anyone knows why and how to tackle the problem please let me know. You can feel free to
send email to me at [email protected]
Many thanks,
Ben<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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