{"id":4702,"date":"2020-06-04T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2020-06-04T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:05:05","slug":"convert-netgear-wndap360-to-standalone-from-managed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/convert-netgear-wndap360-to-standalone-from-managed","title":{"rendered":"Convert Netgear WNDAP360 to standalone from Managed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WNDAP360 can be in Standalone mode , or it can be managed by a Wireless Controller.\u00a0<\/p><p>If you want to change the type ( Managed to Standalone mode ) you need to flash the device firmware. Performing a Factory Reset ( Holding down Reset Button ) just resets the WebGui Login password.<\/p><p><span class=\"\">\u00a0Firmware upgrade sequence for WNDAP360 from 2.x:<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0V2.1.11 -&gt; V2.1.12 -&gt; V3.5.20.0 &#8211; Correct sequence.<\/span><\/p><p>Download the Firmwares from here :\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netgear.com\/support\/product\/WNDAP360.aspx#download\">https:\/\/www.netgear.com\/support\/product\/WNDAP360.aspx#download<\/a><\/p><p>See &#8211; <em><strong><a class=\"more-versions\">View Previous Versions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><p>Once Download . <strong>UnZip the .tar files !<\/strong><\/p><p>Login to the webportal of the managed WNDAP360 and upload the first <span class=\"\">\u00a0V2.1.11 Firmware (.tar )\u00a0 ( I used Chrome )\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>What you will see in the console serial cable connection , is the device restart straight away then wait on the below , Leave the webbrowser open<\/p><pre>######################### Start SysMon Entity [30] #########################<br \/># Name=RFID Mgr, Path=\/ft\/bin\/rfid_mgr, Type=0<br \/>######################### Start SysMon Entity [31] #########################<br \/># Name=RFID Serial Comm, Path=\/ft\/bin\/rfid_serial_comm, Type=0<br \/>Executing file \/FT_CONF\/prepare_upgrade<br \/>********* Waiting for Upgrade file *********<\/pre><p>Wait on this screen for a few minutes\u00a0<\/p><pre>Netgear mips #1 Tue Dec 6 11:52:49 IST 2016 (none)<br \/>Netgear login: <br \/>FACDEF_DRV: Disabling watchdog<br \/>TERM<\/pre><p>You should then see it formating the file system and rebooting again<\/p><p>Once ready you can go upload\u00a0<span class=\"\">V2.1.12 ( takes a while as it has to encrypt the filesystem )\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"\">Then V3.5.20.0 and whatever&#8217;s the latest!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WNDAP360 can be in Standalone mode , or it can be managed by a Wireless Controller.\u00a0If you want to change the type ( Managed to Standalone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2562,3285,2561],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-netgear","tag-waiting-for-upgrade-file","tag-wndap360"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}