No SSH access WR1043ND v1.9

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I might have bricked my router (again :wink:) . However at the moment I don't have access to a serial console to fix it.

According the the "power" LED I should have gotten the device into "failsafe mode". Its flashing faster then normal. Trying to SSH into the router still gives me "connection refused". Of course I messed up Luci in the process so I'm only getting "bad gateway" over http.
It´s not death. It works, in the sense that it hands out IP over DHCP and I can access the internet on the WAN side.

Any suggestions, besides get a serial cable?? It doesn't seem to have the TFTP option in its bootloader.

some additional info: I flashed my own build. Same build enviroment as I´m using with my MT76xx devices, but I wanted to try my TP Link routers as well.

The same "side effects" I had on an Archer C7 v4, but that one is recoverable over TFTP. My MT76xx builds never showed this behaviour...

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You can set up a TFTP server on an attached computer...

http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?81462-How-to-recovery-the-router-when-you-bricked-it1

In your case, you would rename the LEDE firmware file wr1043ndv1_tp_recovery.bin

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I tried that. Didn’t work. Like I said, TFTP recovery works on the Archer C7. Same procedure, different file(name) obviously.

I was more hoping along the lines of failsafe mode and get SSH working.

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If you can't get into failsafe, and can't TFTP from an attached computer, serial is about the only option left.

Good luck.

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That’s the thing. According the fast flashing LED it should be in failsafe mode. But for some reason SSH is not enabled. I guess the only way to know for sure is using a USB TTL cable.