EAP245v3 Bricked. Serial Connected, Now what?

So my AP just bit the bullet. I probably botched the certificate transfer to CA region and uBoot now complains about bad image crc and reverts to default environment. I dont see anything about tftp efforts.

Whats odd, I noticed AFTER I got serial lol, SSH is up, and I can connect using openwrt default credentials. No Web.

How the heck do I fix this lol

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

Sounds like you may be running a snapshot which doesn't include LuCI.

To verify that this is true, let's see the output of (ssh):

ubus call system board

If so...
You have installed a snapshot image. Read the link for instructions how to install Luci, which is not installed by default in snapshots.

https://openwrt.org/faq/can_not_connect_via_webbrowser

Just in general, if you have a serial connection, it would help immensively to copy and paste your output - as we can't guess what you're seeing. Without that, all we get is "doesn't work" after doing unspecified changes ("certificate transfer to CA region" does not really tell us much, even less about what you actually did), which doesn't lend itself for actually helping you.

I can confirm that when I logged into ssh, it mentioned snapshot. I knew I botched it lol.

Installing Luci makes life good? lol

@slh I am headed to bed now, but yeah I should have thought of doing that, good point. Thanks for the reminder. Ill check on Luci and post the output in the morning!

apk update
apk add luci-ssl

If you don't need/want to be running snapshot, you can install 23.05.5 or 24.10.0-rc4.

Ok so, I got it online. I updated, then tried to install luci, and it complained about unable to install due to conflict (ubusd2024 vs ubusd2025).

Performed full upgrade (6 packages), no change.
Rebooted, no change.
I seemingly cannot remove the old ubusd to allow for installation of the new
I tried to upgrade the old ubusd to the new, does nothing.

Hmm... lol

The images @psherman linked to earlier would already contain LuCI.

https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/upgrade_packages_warning

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Sorry I am new to OpenWRT and didnt realize you could SysUpgrade via CLI!

I found these instructions, followed them and successfully upgraded to RC4 via CLI. LuCI is working, device UN-BRICKED. Thanks everyone!! I love you all <3

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