BT Home Hub 5A wont allow any new wired connections

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Router wont allow new wired devices to join network, its a BT Home Hub 5A running OpenWrt 19.07.2 r10947-65030d81f3 / LuCI openwrt-19.07 branch git-20.057.55219-13dd17f. Plusnet fibre.

I had a power cut in September and my tv box stopped connecting it was old so wasn't bothered about it, went I tried to switch on heating found out the Hive hub wasn't connected to the network. Been sent a new hIve hub and it wont connect either. Wireless connections are ok, the problem is with the wired connections - DHCP requests being made but not being assigned IP. I am very new to OpenWrt, so I am thinking that sw on router has corrupted?

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

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You can always try to flash 19.07.4 (you should, anyway), without saving configuration and see if this will solve the solution.

To rule out any issue with DHCP (not that I expect that), you could set a static IP on a computer, connect it to the router and see if you can access it.

Edit: keep the settings, because otherwise you would be locked out of wifi is off and the switch is actually damaged.

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Thanks will maybe try it tomorrow, I did try static ip but still wont connect. Re settings will note them down.

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@dr1960 please note my edit about keeping the configuration to avoid being locked out.

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Hello
Flashed 19.07.4, no change. Going to go review all settings later to see if there's a problem there.
Thanks

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Please copy the output of the following commands and post it here using the "Preformatted text </> " button:
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Remember to redact passwords, MAC addresses and any public IP addresses you may have:

cat /etc/config/network
cat /etc/config/dhcp
cat /etc/config/firewall
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