TL-WA850RE not working after new firmware

From: https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wa850re

Not recommended for future use with OpenWrt due to low flash/ram.
Limitations in extensibility and stability of operation are to be expected.
See 432_warning for details.

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