TP-Link RE450 no internet connection

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Hi,
I have a Tp-Link RE450 WiFi repeater v 2.0. Currently OpenWrt only has a snapshot build for V 2.0. I flashed without knowing that snapshot builds come without web interface. Now I can SSH into the repeater but I can't connect it to any network. I followed this doc to connect to a WiFi network but it doesn't connect at all.

I also tried connecting the repeater to my router via LAN cable, but the repeater doesn't get Internet. Can someone please help me to install luci and set it up as a WiFi repeater?

Edit: The repeater has a dual band WiFi, wlan0 being the 5GHz and wlan1 being the 2.4GHz WiFi, it also has a Gigabit Ethernet port eth0.

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To install LuCI, from SSH run the following:

opkg update 
opkg install luci 
/etc/init.d/uhttpd start 
/etc/init.d/uhttpd enable
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But the problem is, it doesn't have the internet connection.

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Sorry, I missed that part.

It should be possible to diagnose and hopefully solve the internet problem without LuCI. You can send your config here using the following commands (don't forget to mask your MAC addresses):

cat /etc/config/network
cat /etc/config/wireless
cat /etc/config/firewall
cat /etc/config/dhcp

If however you perfer working with LuCI then refer to this page

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@random_dude When posting your config, please use "Preformatted text </>" for the configs.

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I think I had the same problem and I described it, how I tackled the problem: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/solved-snapshot-ssh-no-internet/37686/6

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@random_dude check the post above.