Checking Basic Settings; Default Ip Address Behavior; Enabling The Radio Interfaces; Ssid - Cisco Aironet 350 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Checking Basic Settings

Checking Basic Settings

Mismatched basic settings are the most common causes of lost connectivity with wireless clients. If the
access point does not communicate with client devices, check the following areas.

Default IP Address Behavior

When you connect a 350 series access point running Cisco IOS Release 12.3(2)JA or later software with
a default configuration to your LAN, the access point requests an IP address from your DHCP server,
and if it does not receive an IP address, it continues to send requests indefinitely.
When you connect a 350 series access point running Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)JA2 or earlier software
with a default configuration to your LAN, the access point requests an IP address from your DHCP
server and, if it does not receive an IP address, the access point assigns a default IP address of 10.0.0.1

Enabling the Radio Interfaces

In Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)JA and later, the access point radios are disabled by default, and there is no
default SSID. You must create an SSID and enable the radios before the access point will allow wireless
associations from other devices. These changes to the default configuration improve the security of
newly installed access points. Refer to the
instructions on configuring the SSID.
To enable the radio interfaces, follow these instructions:
Use your browser to access your access point.
Step 1
When the Summary Status page appears, click Network Interfaces > Radio0-802.11b and the radio
Step 2
status page appears.
Click Settings and the radio settings page appears.
Step 3
Click Enable in the Enable Radio field.
Step 4
Step 5 Click Apply.

SSID

Wireless clients attempting to associate with the access point must use the same SSID as the access point.
If a client device's SSID does not match the SSID of an access point in radio range, the client device will
not associate. The access point default SSID is tsunami.
In Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)JA and later, there is no default SSID. You must configure an SSID before
Note
client devices can associate to the access point.
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