How to assign an ip address to the embedded AP in 881W from the command line when first turing it on

I am not familiar with the 881W however all previous routers integrated the Radio config into the router config. It would be astonishing to me if Cisco had changed that operating model.

I just posted a sample for an 877W to the thread "Cisco 877W and Demon Options ".

If you are still having trouble post a security sanitised config here.

Also sh ver.

You setup its IP in the main IOS of the box with 'int wlan-ap0'.

Ie. the docs here describe its setup a few different ways.

This is much the same way the CUE is configured, or some of the auxillary processor systems for various things. Including the 'service-module ... session' command to connect to the seperate processor running the AP.

They did. I suspect the main reason is that the AP on this line supports regular IOS heavy mode, or LWAPP mode.

Its configured much like any of the other "processor" subsystem cards, like CUE or the app engine or whatnot.

Thanks a lot, Doug.

It is interesting that now I can access the AP from two different ip addresses:

- the IP I assign to int BVI of the AP ( via telnet/ssh )

- the IP of VLAN1 of the router ( via service-module wlan-ap0 session )

Dt

Bod, I have also worked with 87x w routers. Cisco does not really change the way the AP to be configured, they just change how the AP "appears" to you. For the 871w or 1240 series, for example, you can config BVI and dot11 interfaces directly after you connect to the router or the AP. For the 881w, the AP is "embedded" inside the router. You have to telnet or reverse telnet to the AP as a separate device. When you "show run" the router, no config for the wireless appears at all. Similarly, when you are inside the "embedded" AP, "show run" won't show the config of the router that contains the AP.

Pretty interesting design.

Dt