How to set Cisco access point air-ap1140 (1142n) to factory default

To set a Cisco air-ap1140 series access point to factory default you should power it up and press the mode button for 10 seconds.

After it is booted you can clear the configuration with the ‘clear capwap private-config’ command.

The next time the access point will boot without a configuration.

See the example bellow:

flashfs[0]: 47 files, 14 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 32385024
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 11934208
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 20450816
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 19 seconds.
Reading cookie from system serial eeprom...Done
Base Ethernet MAC address: 00:22:aa:aa:aa:aa
Ethernet speed is 100 Mb - FULL duplex
button is pressed, wait for button to be released...
button pressed for 30 seconds
process_config_recovery: set IP address and config to default 10.0.0.1
process_config_recovery: image recovery image_recovery: Download default IOS tar image tftp://255.255.255.255/c1140-k9w7-tar.default

examining image...
%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/c1140-k9w7-tar.default (connection timed out)

ap: delete flash:private-multiple-fs
Are you sure you want to delete "flash:private-multiple-fs" (y/n)?y
File "flash:private-multiple-fs" deleted

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