I'm hoping someone can help. I've got myself in a bit of a "bad place" with my EAP245 v3...
I loaded up OpenWRT. Then something happened and the unit will not boot cleanly anymore.
I tried the reset button and having it pull the TP-Link firmware via tftp. I tried loading the TP-Link Firmware via the Recovery Web Interface (will not take). I can Ctrl-B and then boot OpenWrt with the "bootelf 0x9f0c0000" command.
I have access via UART port to the console. Boot shows me this and goes directly to the Recovery Web Interface....
U-Boot 1.1.4--LSDK-10.2-00082-4 (Mar 19 2018 - 14:55:50)
board956x - Dragonfly 1.0DRAM:
sri
ath_ddr_initial_config(287): (ddr2 init)
ath_ddr_initial_config: DDR_EMR2_ADDRESS=0x180000bc, EMR2 value=0x80
ath_sys_frequency: ref_clk 25000000
ath_sys_frequency: cpu 775 ddr 650 ahb 258
Tap values = (0xf, 0xf, 0xf, 0xf)
128 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000
Reserving 454k for U-Boot at: 87f8c000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 87f5c000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 87f5bfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 87f5bfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 87f3bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 87f3bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87f8c000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x18
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Setting 0x181162c0 to 0x40802100
Hit Ctrl+B to stop autoboot: 0
[NM_Error](nm_api_checkInteger) 00373: factory boot check integer flag is not 1.
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
athrs17_reg_init: complete
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Trying eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
HTTP server is starting at IP: 192.168.1.1
HTTP server is ready!
If I try and install the TP-Link 2.21.0 (or any of the 3 TP-Link available versions) I get this error in the console...
Firmwave supports EAP245(TP-Link|UN|AC1750-D):3.0, check OK..
Firmware Recovery check ok!
set integer flag to 0.
[NM_Error](nm_updateDataToNvram) 00652: memory malloc failed.
[NM_Error](nm_upgradeFwupFile) 01666: updateDataToNvram failed.
[NM_Error](nm_tpFirmwareRecovery) 01627: upgrade firmware failed!
Web recovery failed type 0.
## Error: HTTP ugrade failed!