AirLive WLA-5500CPE Quick Start Manual

Emergency recovery

WLA-5500CPE/WLA-5500CPE-NT/WLA-5500CPE-PCBA

This document guides you how to inspect and repair your WHA-5500CPE firmware.

Under certain conditions your WHA-5500CPE firmware will crash. The most common situation

is loss of power during the updating firmware process, resulting in not being able to power on.

You can try the following steps to see if the firmware is damaged or not:

1. At local area, ping your WHA-5500CPE IP address

2. Try using telnet to login to WHA-5500CPE

3. Try login to your WHA-5500CPE's Web UI

It might be possible that the IP address of the WHA-5500CPE has been changed. Please

manually reset your WHA-5500CPE to factory default setting IP address as 192.168.1.1 and

repeat the above three steps to confirm firmware.

Emergency Recovery

Once the setup is powered on,

press the Reset button and

hold for 5 seconds. The setup

will then reset to factory

default setting.

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Page 1 WLA-5500CPE/WLA-5500CPE-NT/WLA-5500CPE-PCBA Emergency Recovery This document guides you how to inspect and repair your WHA-5500CPE firmware. Under certain conditions your WHA-5500CPE firmware will crash. The most common situation is loss of power during the updating firmware process, resulting in not being able to power on.
Page 2 192.168.1.254/255.255.255.0 (To avoid confusion, we don’t recommend setting multiple IP addresses) 3. WHA-5500CPE firmware, you can download it from here http://www.airlive.com/support/WHA-5500CPE/fd_wha_5500cpe.shtml , and name the file as zImage (Note: Only this file name can be used) and save it to C: drive (to avoid confusion, please don’t save the firmware file to any other drive, or else it won’t work)
Page 3 Please follow the following steps to operate: 1. Check if the WHA-5500CPE firmware is located in the C: drive. 2. Check your computer IP is set as 192.168.1.254/255.255.255.0 3. Check to see if your computer is connected with WHA-5500CPE 4. Execute the TFTP server software in your computer drive. 5.
Page 4 7. It takes around 5 minutes to download firmware and around 5 minutes to update the firmware. 7. After a successful recovery, the WHA-5500CPE boots up automatically. 8. Try ping or access 192.168.1.1 by an internet browser, 9. Repeat the processes again if failed.

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