Good day.
I'm posting this to help other people.
If you have a Vigor AP with some kind of a software issue or just with an unknown admin password and disabled reset button, here is how you can flash a fresh firmware.
Download the firmware from the vigor's website and extract it somewhere.
Download TFTPD64 or other tftp client with file push.
Connect to the unit with an ethernet cable and set your client IP address to 192.168.1.10 (just not .1 or .2).
Start TFTPD64, go to tftp client tab. Select the server interface with the above IP and then enter:
host 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.2 (if one does not work, try the other)
port 69
local file - the firmware file (extension .all)
Click PUT
Press and hold the reset button on the vigor and turn it on (release the reset button after few seconds).
If everything goes fine, the unit will enter in TFTP recovery mode and will start a tftp daemon on .1 or .2 and tftpd64 will be able to successfully push the new firmware file.
This will also enable again the reset button and then you can do a factory reset.
My case was a VigorAP902 with an unknown admin password and disabled reset button.
Connected to console (baud rate 115200), unfortunately all inputs are disabled or password protected, but was able to see that the recovery mode is a tftp daemon and on which ip it runs.
I'm posting this to help other people.
If you have a Vigor AP with some kind of a software issue or just with an unknown admin password and disabled reset button, here is how you can flash a fresh firmware.
Download the firmware from the vigor's website and extract it somewhere.
Download TFTPD64 or other tftp client with file push.
Connect to the unit with an ethernet cable and set your client IP address to 192.168.1.10 (just not .1 or .2).
Start TFTPD64, go to tftp client tab. Select the server interface with the above IP and then enter:
host 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.2 (if one does not work, try the other)
port 69
local file - the firmware file (extension .all)
Click PUT
Press and hold the reset button on the vigor and turn it on (release the reset button after few seconds).
If everything goes fine, the unit will enter in TFTP recovery mode and will start a tftp daemon on .1 or .2 and tftpd64 will be able to successfully push the new firmware file.
This will also enable again the reset button and then you can do a factory reset.
My case was a VigorAP902 with an unknown admin password and disabled reset button.
Connected to console (baud rate 115200), unfortunately all inputs are disabled or password protected, but was able to see that the recovery mode is a tftp daemon and on which ip it runs.
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