from AP to LWAP

I will need to convert a few 1200's from AP to LWAP so the controller can manage them. It's my understanding that a 4400 series will not manage AP's with full IOS on them.
I have found the cisco doc explaining teh conversion process but want to see if anyone out here has climbed this ladder and might want to share any gotcha's them came across?
tia
I have found the cisco doc explaining teh conversion process but want to see if anyone out here has climbed this ladder and might want to share any gotcha's them came across?
tia
just trying to keep it all in perspective!
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Cisco says it doesn't work that way and you can only go from autonomous to LW... Unless they started as autonomous.
http://forum.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Ddisplay_location%26location%3D.2cbf4df6/9
What I did was to hold down the button, plug in the power whilst leaving the ethernet unplugged. It'll boot into its ROM monitor prompt. Plug in ethernet. Run the init commands to enable ethernet and then enable TFTP. Then I just downloaded the latest IOS image from my TFTP server.
http://tools.cisco.com/support/downloads/go/Redirect.x?mdfid=278875243
and select your model under access points.
I used the LWAP update utility they offered in this section. It is a TFTP app you run on your pc.
For this app, you will have to create a txt file that has the ip as well as username, password, and enable password in this format (called ip file):
ip,username,pasword,enablepassword
you will then specify your computer or servers ip that hosts the update file as the TFTP server. Next you need to specify the username and password of your wireless controller.
Before applying this update, please read the release notes for it as you may need your AP to be at a certain IOS release before it can be properly applied. Hope this helps!