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unable to updrade Cisco Aironet 3700i series IOS config with TFTP

hi, just got a new lightweight 3700i series AP, and im following the instructions on the cisco webpage to make it autonomous but the commands are not working. theres only a few commands when I do the ? command and the ones I need are not there

attached are the commands available on the session
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Comptx

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I have no power adapter for it, we currently use it with a poe switch, which is serving production APs at the moment.

Soulja

Also, I just noticed you have the "enable" command on that list. Can you enter that command then list what available commands you have.

Comptx

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actually I have an injector here that I can try. let me give it a try and ill report back

Comptx

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when I do enable it asks me for the password which I then supply but doesn't change the available commands like on a normal IOS router

Comptx

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ok, your first suggested solution worked until a certain point. it wouldn't find the file on the tftp server, even tho I matched the file name and extension to the exact thing the log said. so while trying to resolve that I found this other article which allowed me to do the process manually:
From Article: https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2228852

changed to my own name of course

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You need to perform these steps:

Restart the Access Point
While it loads the image in flash, press Escape, you’ll enter ROMMON mode:
The system boot has been aborted. The following

commands will finish loading the operating system
software:

ether_init

tftp_init

boot

Set the IP address for the gigabit 0 interface:
ap: set IP_ADDR 10.0.0.1

ap: set netmask 255.255.255.0

Initialize the tftp, ethernet and flash subsystems:
ap: tftp_init

tftp_init success: You can now use tftp file system!

ap: ether_init

Initializing ethernet port 0...

Ethernet speed is 100 Mb - FULL Duplex

ap: flash_init

Initializing Flash...

...The flash is already initialized.

Load the image from TFTP and extract it to flash:
ap: tar -xtract tftp://10.0.0.100/ap3g2-k9w7-tar.152-2.JB.tar flash:

After it’s done, set the correct bootimage:
ap: set BOOT flash://ap3g2-k9w7-mx.152-2.JB/ap3g2-k9w7-xx.152-2.JB

Boot the system:
ap: boot

after this It became an autonomous device and now im able to manage it.

thank you for your help