my friend has this router to use as a repeater but bricked the router installing DDWRT
want to help him,i see this (with pictures)
Iwant to insall OPENWRT,but i cant do any thing regarding this problem
I cant access the router with wire
can u help me to bring this ROUTER back to life
THANKS
If you have serial access, see if there's serial TFTP recovery.
Otherwise ask ddwrt how to revert to stock.
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I have serial but cant access with wire,this is the problem
thank u for replay
Define access ?
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I mean this
I can see wireless,but without any help
When doing TFTP recovery, the client won't see the port as "working".
Just a quick note here...
This device is very old and probably not worth attempting to recover. The TL-WA801nd v2.1 only has 4MB flash memory and 32MB RAM.
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wa801nd
While this device was supported, it isn't any longer. The most recent OpenWrt version for this via the official channel is 18.06 which has been EOL and unsupported for many years. It has many serious known security vulnerabilities, and even the syntax of the config has changed as to make it very hard to support some 6 years after the release of 18.06.
For OpenWrt, you should be looking at more recent hardware that can support 23.05 and beyond -- that means at least 8MB/64MB for current, and 16MB/128MB for future support.
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can you not get uboot shell ? can you post the full serial bootlog , usually you just type tpl when prompted by uboot which will drop you into uboot cl, then just use the tftpboot to upload the stock firmware.
Assuming the blog entry you just posted is wrong... 
there ..you take from here
yes,exactly
It wasn't a question, bub.
thank u any way
No idea why, but you're welcome.