Need that a Cisco Catalyst Express 500 behaves as cheap switch

Need that a Cisco Catalyst Express 500 behaves as  cheap switch.
I happen to have a surplus of CE500 and i need to use one as a layer 2 cheap switch (unaware of lan and with port protection off).
How can i achive this?

That's the thing, i'm sitting on several CE500, i'm not allowed to buy a cheap one right now, i have to use what i have, i know is too much but it should work and i read that it does, there is only one problem, i need to plug a access point to the CE500 that connect this section of my network to the rest.
I can't make the CE500 to work with this AP, a cheap switch i had there before worked properly.

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