Controllerless Networks

Hello,

I was given a brand new ap-205 to evaluate for a project, however I've run into an issue I haven't been able to resolve by reading the manual. I'm afraid I'm not an IT guy and fear I am in over my head... I'm hoping I can get some help here to direct me to what I need, it seems like we're missing something.

In short, it says to plug it in, give it an IP, connect to the "instant" wifi network, then configure using the web GUI.

Since it's just sitting on my desk without access to a DHCP server, I used the console port to set a static IP address and confirmed that it took the settings. However, it goes through a constant reboot loop. I tried a factory reset, but get the same results. Below I've copied and pasted what I get out of the console.

APBoot 1.5.3.14 (build 45815)
Built: 2014-09-05 at 11:23:04

Model: AP-20x
CPU:   BCM53011/15, revision A0
I2C:   ready
SKU:   2
OTP:   0xeca01028
Clock:
       CPU:  800 MHz
       DDR:  533 MHz
       AXI:  400 MHz
       APB:  200 MHz
       PER:  400 MHz
DRAM:  128 MB
POST1: memory passed
SF:    Detected MX25L25635E with page size  4 kB, total 32 MB
Flash: 32 MB
PCIe0: RC, link up
       dev fn venID devID class  rev    MBAR0    MBAR1    MBAR2    MBAR3
       00  00  14e4  4360 00002   03 08000004 00000000 00000000 00000000
PCIe1: RC, link up
       dev fn venID devID class  rev    MBAR0    MBAR1    MBAR2    MBAR3
       00  00  14e4  4360 00002   03 40000004 00000000 00000000 00000000
Power: DC
Net:   eth0
Radio: bcm43460#0, bcm43460#1

Hit <Enter> to stop autoboot:  0
Checking image @ 0x1e100000
Invalid image format version: 0xffffffff
Checking image @ 0x1ef00000
Copying image from 0x1ef00000

Image is signed; verifying checksum... passed
Signer Cert OK
Policy Cert OK
RSA signature verified.
Uncompressing... done
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] Aruba Networks
[    0.000000] ArubaOS Version 6.4.1.0 (build 43850 / label #43850)
[    0.000000] Built by p4build@cartman on 2014-05-20 at 23:07:58 PDT (gcc version 4.7.2)
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] Flash variant: variant0
[    0.000000] Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
[    0.000000] Memory: 121168k/121168k available, 9904k reserved, 0K highmem
[    0.052000] hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    3.226000] PMU: registered new PMU device of type 0
[    3.732000] pci 0001:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x08000000-0x080fffff]
[    3.734000] pci 0001:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x08000000-0x08007fff 64bit]
[    3.736000] pci 0001:01:00.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x08000000-0x08007fff 64bit] (PCI address [0x8000000-0x8007fff]
[    4.238000] pci 0002:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x40000000-0x400fffff]
[    4.240000] pci 0002:02:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x40000000-0x40007fff 64bit]
[    4.242000] pci 0002:02:00.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x40000000-0x40007fff 64bit] (PCI address [0x40000000-0x40007fff]
[    4.588000] i2c-springbank: using remapped base c9cc8060
[    4.590000] mpcore_wdt mpcore_wdt: enabling watchdog.
[    4.596000] qspi_iproc qspi_iproc.1: 1-lane output, 3-byte address
[    4.598000] m25p80 spi1.0: mx25l25635e (32768 Kbytes)
[    4.600000] Creating 1 MTD partitions on "spi1.0":
[    4.602000] 0x000000000000-0x000002000000 : "qspi"
[    4.604000]
[    4.604000] Starting Kernel SHA1 KAT ...Completed Kernel SHA1 KAT
[    4.608000] Starting Kernel HMAC-SHA1 KAT ...Completed Kernel HMAC-SHA1 KAT
[    4.622000] Starting Kernel DES KAT ...Completed Kernel DES KAT
[    4.626000] Starting Kernel AES KAT ...Completed Kernel AES KAT
[    4.628000]
Domain Name: arubanetworks.com
No panic info available
[    6.102000] AP xml model 81, num_radios 2 (jiffies 3051)
[    6.104000] init_asap_mod: installation:0
[    6.106000] radio 0: band 1 ant 0 max_ssid 16
[    6.108000] radio 1: band 0 ant 0 max_ssid 16
Starting watchdog process...
Got all netw[    8.474000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
ork params from APboot env. Skipping DHCP
192.0.2.0 255.255.255.0 192.0.2.2
Running ADP...cat: /tmp/master: No such file or directory
Done. Master is
killall: nanny: no process killed
killall: sapd: no process killed
Sending SIGKILL to all processes.
Please stand by while rebooting the system.
[   78.556000] Restarting system.

The "Instant" setup refers to if the AP is running an Instant mode or an IAP. From the bootup, this appears to be running ArubaOS which would require a controller (or it is an Instant AP which has been converted).

[    0.000000] ArubaOS Version 6.4.1.0 (build 43850 / label #43850)

Attempting to locate a master...

ork params from APboot env. Skipping DHCP
192.0.2.0 255.255.255.0 192.0.2.2
Running ADP...cat: /tmp/master: No such file or directory
Done. Master is

You need to confirm if this is an IAP or an AP in the first instant. Does it say IAP-205 or AP205 on the back sticker? If it is an IAP you can reset it via the button back to InstantOS. If it is an AP-205 then you will need a controller.

The sticker says "AP-205" on it, so it looks like they ordered the wrong version?

In the intended application they're looking to have this be standalone on an isolated network. Is "IAP-205" what they should have ordered then?

Thank you for your help, it's greatly appreciated.

Yep, you'll need an IAP-205 if you wish to use it without a physical controller :)

Here's the datasheet, which lists the correct part code for an IAP.

http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP200Series.pdf

Thanks, and once again I appreciate your help!