I installed openwrt on my tplink omada er605 and when I restarted the router for the FIRST time, it worked fine, both the web gui and ssh functioned as expected.
after about a week of sitting there turned off, it no longer works.
I used the suggested 192.168.1.1 to connect to it but the connection timed out.
then I tried going into my PCs settings and manually setting it to 192.168.1.1 since I was noticing that It was generating a different IP from the subnet my PC was on.
then I tried to set it manually to within my subnet
then I tried to reset it, I pressed the reset button until the lights started flashing and the lights stabalized and then I let it sit for about 5 minutes and I retried all my steps and I retried them with each port and still nothing
when I try to connect to the web gui, it times out, and when I try to ssh, it either times out or it just refuses
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every time I let it automatically connect via shared internet through my PCs ethernet, it has the IP adress op 10.42.0.1 instead of the openwrt suggested 192.168.1.1 or x.x.x.2 .
I CAN ping it, and it does work, I just can't ssh or https into it
I installed by ssh-ing into it and entering the commands on the github repo, I had it connected from my PC to the WAN port of the router and uploaded the binaries. I then rebooted it and I was able to both ssh and use the web gui and even able to do the sysupdate
correct, my PCs IP is different from the router, what I did was just manually try to assign it an IP address within my subnet, I used one that wasn't used by any other devices within my network.
I tried assigning it an IP adress via my PC's internet sharing settings, running popOS with Gnome desktop enviroment
The Recovery mode won't work after running the Openwrt install scripts.
From the install link above...
After the install, you will NOT be able to use the recovery mode of the ER605 to flash a factory image to recover from a bad install. You will need to use ubiformat to reflash your mtd3 (firmware) partition if you ever want to restore to the default firmware.
For info, I used the scripts a while ago to install Openwrt on my ER605 and its been fine since.
After OpenWrt is installed WebUI and SSH is not available on WAN.
Reconnect and try from one of the LAN ports.
You should be able to reset you IP configuration of the client machine to DHCP/SLAAC and obtain a valid IP configuration automatically.
I dont see anywhere in the Github instructions saying connect to the WAN port. I certainly dont recall ever connecting to the WAN port when I converted my ER605 to Openwrt.
how does one do that, when i look it up online, it gives me a bunch of results that either involve IoT,WAP, or SSHing into the router, is there an openwrt article about isolating?
I tried this and it still gives me the same 10.42.0.1 IP, I tried unplugging my PC and re-starting it without wifi and I have tried sshing into it with both the WAN and LAN ports, 1 and 4 respectively and I still won't allow me, if 10.42.0.1 IP isn't correct, but it assigns it anways, is that a problem with my PC instead? I'm using Pop OS
I then tried to access the webgui and ssh through the LAN port, port 4 to be exact
the tutorial you link asks to set up the IP as 192.168.0.20/24 which I did and although I CAN ping it and it does respond, it does not however let me access the TP webgui to re-flash openwrt. I have tried 192.168.0.20 and also 192.168.0.1 which is the default printed on the bottom of the device.
I'd be surprised if you can easily revert to a TPLink firmware. The github scripts alter the flash layout to allow Openwrt to be installed. In order to get the flash layout back , you would need to restore some flash partitions from a backup.