GS1900-24E is not rachable after flashing snapshot

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello,

I recently flashed the snapshot initramfs image to my GS1900-24E.
I rebooted, having a serial console connected and at the first glance all looks fine.
I see all interfaces, the ip address is 192.168.1.1 and ports show correct connectivity status.
Unfortunately, the device is not reachable from outside (my directly connected pc uses 192.168.1.211/24). Also i can not ping any device in the network from the serial console.

I changed ip-address, gateway, cable etc. nothing helps.

I would like to continue the installation with installing the sysupgrade image, but i have no idea, how to get the file on the device.

Any ideas?
TIA for your help!

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Why did you go with snapshot? Try TFTP-booting either 23.05 or 24.10-RC and see if it works there. I have 23.05 on a GS1900-24E working fine.

I took the liberty to correct a typo in your topic title (GS1900-E4E -> GS1900-24E).

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This makes it rather easy, as you can simply tftpboot another initramfs image (e.g. 23.05 or 24.10-RC, as andyboeh suggested) to see what happens there.

OpenWrt recently (at least in main, I think this was also backported to 24.10) had to strip down to images, to fit into the partitioning constraints of the OEM firmware - as a result the switch no longer acts as a 'normal' router by default (e.g. no DHCPd installed/ running).

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Hello,
Thanks for your answer.
I wanted to use the snapshot as it looked to me, that it would better utilize the Flash of the Switch.

As it did Not work, i flashed the latest rc and the result is really promising.

It Shows up with more than 6 mb of free Flash and i was able to install dnsmasq, which i wanted to enable dhcp Server etc. on my vlans.

I will keep this Image and continue on my tries.
Thanks again to all who replied