Apologies for repeating this topic - I was not able to get the EAP245 back after trying to follow the previous posts.
Some updates -
Situation 1 – Booting with UART port connected to my mac and monitoring –
picocom -b 115200 /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
picocom v3.1
port is : /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
flowcontrol : none
baudrate is : 115200
parity is : none
databits are : 8
stopbits are : 1
escape is : C-a
local echo is : no
noinit is : no
noreset is : no
hangup is : no
nolock is : no
send_cmd is : sz -vv
receive_cmd is : rz -vv -E
imap is :
omap is :
emap is : crcrlf,delbs,
logfile is : none
initstring : none
exit_after is : not set
exit is : no
Type [C-a] [C-h] to see available commands
Terminal ready
?
U-Boot 1.1.4--LSDK-10.2-00082-4 (Mar 19 2018 - 14:55:50)
board956x - Dragonfly 1.0DRAM:
sri
ath_ddr_initial_config(312): (ddr1 init)
ath_sys_frequency: ref_clk 25000000
ath_sys_frequency: cpu 775 ddr 650 ahb 258
Tap values = (0x11, 0x11, 0x11, 0x11)
4 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 80400000
Reserving 454k for U-Boot at: 8038c000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 8035c000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 8035bfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 8035bfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 8033bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 8033bf98
Pressing Ctrl-c has no effect
Situation 2 – Booted while USB to TTL UART not connected to mac. UART connected after booting and monitoring started –
picocom -b 115200 /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
picocom v3.1
port is : /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
flowcontrol : none
baudrate is : 115200
parity is : none
databits are : 8
stopbits are : 1
escape is : C-a
local echo is : no
noinit is : no
noreset is : no
hangup is : no
nolock is : no
send_cmd is : sz -vv
receive_cmd is : rz -vv -E
imap is :
omap is :
emap is : crcrlf,delbs,
logfile is : none
initstring : none
exit_after is : not set
exit is : no
Type [C-a] [C-h] to see available commands
Terminal ready
Trying eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
HTTP server is starting at IP: 192.168.1.1
HTTP server is ready!
I am able to get this on web browser –
Pressing ctrl-c
Web failsafe mode aborted!
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
ath>
not able to boot using initramfs.bin even after resetting (with reset command) and pressing Ctrl-B when prompted.
Situation 3 – Boot into recovery mode while the UART is not connected to mac, then connect the UART
picocom -b 115200 /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
picocom v3.1
port is : /dev/tty.usbserial-0001
flowcontrol : none
baudrate is : 115200
parity is : none
databits are : 8
stopbits are : 1
escape is : C-a
local echo is : no
noinit is : no
noreset is : no
hangup is : no
nolock is : no
send_cmd is : sz -vv
receive_cmd is : rz -vv -E
imap is :
omap is :
emap is : crcrlf,delbs,
logfile is : none
initstring : none
exit_after is : not set
exit is : no
Type [C-a] [C-h] to see available commands
Terminal ready
T Tx Timed out
Tftp server tranfer fail!
run command tftp 0x81000000 EAP245v3_up.bin
Trying eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.100; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'EAP245v3_up.bin'.
Load address: 0x81000000
Loading: *
TFTP error: 'File not found' (1)
Starting again
Trying eth0
Tftp server tranfer fail!
tftpboot firmware failed, now start normally.
[NM_Error](nm_api_checkInteger) 00373: factory boot check integer flag is not 1.
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Trying eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
HTTP server is starting at IP: 192.168.1.1
HTTP server is ready!
Ctrl-c
Web failsafe mode aborted!
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
ath>
ath> reset #and pressing Ctrl-B when asked for
U-Boot 1.1.4--LSDK-10.2-00082-4 (Mar 19 2018 - 14:55:50)
board956x - Dragonfly 1.0DRAM:
sri
ath_ddr_initial_config(287): (ddr2 init)
ath_ddr_initial_config: DDR_EMR2_ADDRESS=0x180000bc, EMR2 value=0x80
ath_sys_frequency: ref_clk 25000000
ath_sys_frequency: cpu 775 ddr 650 ahb 258
Tap values = (0x10, 0x10, 0x10, 0x10)
128 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000
Reserving 454k for U-Boot at: 87f8c000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 87f5c000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 87f5bfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 87f5bfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 87f3bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 87f3bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87f8c000
Flash Manuf Id 0x1c, DeviceId0 0x70, DeviceId1 0x18
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Setting 0x181162c0 to 0x40802100
Hit Ctrl+B to stop autoboot: 0
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
athrs17_reg_init: complete
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
ath>
ath> setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
ath> setenv serverip 192.168.1.100
ath> tftp 0x80800000 initramfs.bin
Trying eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.100; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'initramfs.bin'.
Load address: 0x80800000
Loading: #################################################################
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done
Bytes transferred = 5458276 (534964 hex)
ath>
ath> bootelf $fileaddr
Loading .text @ 0x80060000 (5453767 bytes)
## Starting application at 0x80060000 ...
OpenWrt kernel loader for AR7XXX/AR9XXX
Copyright (C) 2011 Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Decompressing kernel... done!
Starting kernel at 80060000...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.15.127 (builder@buildhost) (mips-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc (OpenWrt GCC 12.3.0 r23769-324673914d) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.40.0) #0 Fri Aug 18 21:45:16 2023
[ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019750 (MIPS 74Kc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is TP-Link EAP245 v3 / EAP265 HD v1
[ 0.000000] SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA956X ver 1 rev 0
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32480
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] Memory: 108468K/131072K available (6087K kernel code, 592K rwdata, 1328K rodata, 13040K init, 217K bss, 22604K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 51
[ 0.000000] CPU clock: 775.000 MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 4932285024 ns
[ 0.000001] sched_clock: 32 bits at 387MHz, resolution 2ns, wraps every 5541893118ns
[ 0.008294] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.074824] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.080528] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.088266] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.102669] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.113089] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.120449] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.127707] NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family
[ 0.134515] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'
[ 0.150536] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.163587] NET: Registered PF_INET protocol family
[ 0.168962] IP idents hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.177507] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.186403] Table-perturb hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
[ 0.194585] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.202684] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.210128] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.216984] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.223941] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.231697] NET: Registered PF_UNIX/PF_LOCAL protocol family
[ 0.237706] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 0.320980] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=15 bucket_order=1
[ 0.332591] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.338752] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.371837] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[ 0.393697] pinctrl-single 1804002c.pinmux: 544 pins, size 68
[ 0.401025] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.410239] printk: console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.414869] 18020000.uart: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 9, base_baud = 1562500) is a 16550A
[ 0.423990] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.423990] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.433060] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.433060] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.512614] spi-nor spi0.0: en25qh128 (16384 Kbytes)
[ 0.517866] 10 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.524601] OF: Bad cell count for /ahb/spi@1f000000/flash@0/partitions
[ 0.531487] OF: Bad cell count for /ahb/spi@1f000000/flash@0/partitions
[ 0.538574] Creating 10 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.543660] 0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "factory-boot"
[ 0.566364] 0x000000040000-0x000000080000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.572654] 0x000000080000-0x000000090000 : "partition-table"
[ 0.581164] 0x000000090000-0x0000000a0000 : "info"
[ 0.587149] 0x0000000a0000-0x0000000b0000 : "art"
[ 0.594696] 0x0000000b0000-0x0000000c0000 : "extra-para"
[ 0.601218] 0x0000000c0000-0x000000f00000 : "firmware"
[ 0.609141] 0x000000f00000-0x000000f30000 : "config"
[ 0.615453] 0x000000f30000-0x000000fb0000 : "mutil-log"
[ 0.623420] 0x000000fb0000-0x000000ff0000 : "oops"
[ 1.384388] switch0: Atheros AR8337 rev. 2 switch registered on mdio.0
[ 2.035041] ag71xx 19000000.eth: connected to PHY at mdio.0:00 [uid=004dd036, driver=Atheros AR8216/AR8236/AR8316]
[ 2.046352] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode: sgmii
[ 2.053175] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver
[ 2.059739] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family
[ 2.073785] Segment Routing with IPv6
[ 2.077649] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6
[ 2.081874] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
[ 2.087207] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 2.100929] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 2.106499] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 2.110797] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x12000000-0x13ffffff]
[ 2.117902] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000]
[ 2.123670] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]
[ 2.131908] pci 0000:00:00.0: [168c:0040] type 00 class 0x028000
[ 2.138149] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x001fffff 64bit]
[ 2.145302] pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[ 2.151645] pci 0000:00:00.0: 2.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 2.5 GT/s PCIe x1 link at 0000:00:00.0 (capable of 4.000 Gb/s with 5.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link)
[ 2.168002] pci_bus 0000:00: busn_res: [bus 00-ff] end is updated to 00
[ 2.174909] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x12000000-0x121fffff 64bit]
[ 2.256642] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 13040K
[ 2.262894] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
[ 2.269553] Run /init as init process
[ 2.743098] init: Console is alive
[ 2.747108] init: - watchdog -
[ 2.772293] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 2.785453] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 2.804357] init: - preinit -
[ 3.133059] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 3.279797] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 3.369325] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 4.343582] random: procd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 4.359093] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 4.370033] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 4.382982] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0.1: link becomes ready
Press the [f] key and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
[ 5.380953] Atheros AR8216/AR8236/AR8316 mdio.0:00: Port 5 is up
[ 6.546087] eth0: link down
[ 6.567971] procd: - early -
[ 6.571915] procd: - watchdog -
[ 7.197414] procd: - watchdog -
[ 7.201068] procd: - ubus -
[ 7.212586] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.254967] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.262089] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.272272] procd: - init -
Please press Enter to activate this console.
[ 7.966990] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 8.419142] Loading modules backported from Linux version v6.1.24-0-g0102425ac76b
[ 8.426935] Backport generated by backports.git v5.15.92-1-44-gd6ea70fafd36
[ 8.680008] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 8.701583] NET: Registered PF_PPPOX protocol family
[ 8.802566] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9561 Rev:0 mem=0xb8100000, irq=2
[ 8.860959] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 9.765372] urngd: v1.0.2 started.
[ 10.206396] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 10.661564] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 10.918606] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 11.460931] random: crng init done
[ 11.464464] random: 30 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[ 59.385477] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 59.390288] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 59.413559] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered blocking state
[ 59.419164] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered disabled state
[ 59.425076] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 59.430040] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 59.457493] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered blocking state
[ 59.463138] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 60.420868] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready
BusyBox v1.36.1 (2023-08-18 21:45:16 UTC) built-in shell (ash)
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| |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_
| - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _|
|_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____|
|__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
-----------------------------------------------------
OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r23769-324673914d
-----------------------------------------------------
=== WARNING! =====================================
There is no root password defined on this device!
Use the "passwd" command to set up a new password
in order to prevent unauthorized SSH logins.
--------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:/#
####transferred openwrt-23.05.0-rc2-ath79-generic-tplink_eap245-v3-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin with scp
root@OpenWrt:/# ls tmp
TZ
board.json
dhcp.leases
dnsmasq.d
etc
hosts
lib
lock
log
openwrt-23.05.0-rc2-ath79-generic-tplink_eap245-v3-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
resolv.conf
resolv.conf.d
run
shm
state
sysinfo
tmp
root@OpenWrt:/# cd tmp
root@OpenWrt:/tmp# sysupgrade openwrt-23.05.0-rc2-ath79-generic-tplink_eap245-v3
-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Cannot save config while running from ramdisk.
Fri Aug 18 21:49:53 UTC 2023 upgrade: Commencing upgrade. Closing all shell sessions.
Watchdog handover: fd=3
- watchdog -
Watchdog did not previously reset the system
Fri Aug 18 21:49:54 UTC 2023 upgrade: Sending TERM to remaining processes ...
Fri Aug 18 21:49:58 UTC 2023 upgrade: Sending KILL to remaining processes ...
[ 296.048374] stage2 (2100): drop_caches: 3
Fri Aug 18 21:50:04 UTC 2023 upgrade: Switching to ramdisk...
Fri Aug 18 21:50:07 UTC 2023 upgrade: Performing system upgrade...
[ 298.528021] do_stage2 (2100): drop_caches: 3
Unlocking firmware ...
Writing from <stdin> to firmware ...
Appending jffs2 data from /tmp/sysupgrade.tgz to firmware..
.File /tmp/sysupgrade.tgz does not exist
Fri Aug 18 21:50:39 UTC 2023 upgrade: Upgrade completed
Fri Aug 18 21:50:40 UTC 2023 upgrade: Rebooting system...
umount: can't unmount /dev: Resource busy
umount: can't unmount /tmp: Resource [ 331.654604] reboot: Restarting system
U-Boot 1.1.4--LSDK-10.2-00082-4 (Mar 19 2018 - 14:55:50)
board956x - Dragonfly 1.0DRAM:
sri
ath_ddr_initial_config(287): (ddr2 init)
ath_ddr_initial_config: DDR_EMR2_ADDRESS=0x180000bc, EMR2 value=0x80
ath_sys_frequency: ref_clk 25000000
ath_sys_frequency: cpu 775 ddr 650 ahb 258
Tap values = (0x10, 0x10, 0x10, 0x10)
128 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000
Reserving 454k for U-Boot at: 87f8c000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 87f5c000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 87f5bfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 87f5bfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 87f3bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 87f3bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87f8c000
Flash Manuf Id 0x1c, DeviceId0 0x70, DeviceId1 0x18
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Setting 0x181162c0 to 0x40802100
Hit Ctrl+B to stop autoboot: 0
[NM_Error](nm_api_checkInteger) 00373: factory boot check integer flag is not 1.
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
athrs17_reg_init: complete
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Trying eth0
eth0 link down
FAIL
Trying eth0
dup 1 speed 1000
HTTP server is starting at IP: 192.168.1.1
HTTP server is ready!
I tried force installing openwrt-23.05.0-rc2-ath79-generic-tplink_eap245-v3-squashfs-factory image as well, but ended here again.
Had the same end result with the force install attempt with TPLink official image - EAP245v3_5.1.0_[20230104-rel79433]_up_signed
