TPLINK TL-WR941ND delete all packages by mistake

Dear Sir

I have a TPLINK TL-WR941ND router with openwrt 17 works from long time
yesterday I delete all packages by mistake from ssh coneection,
and I lost connection to the router.
now pwr led is on and sys led is flashing and when insert network cabel its
coresponding led is on but no ip
no communication
I try normal reset and hardware reset ( connect power while press reset button )
but no way

Please help

If it has LEDE 17.01.x, does this reset method work for you?

  • Switch on router.
  • Wait a minute or two to power up.
  • Hold RESET button down.
  • After about 10 seconds, the Power LED should change colour. Release button immediately!

See also https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/troubleshooting/failsafe_and_factory_reset

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I try but no way, My device do not take any ip ( due to packae delete )

I conatct tplink officail support but they told my to buy a new router

Any Help

If Factory Reset doesn't work, you may have to consider connecting a computer to router using a serial-TTL cable to reload LEDE/openwrt using TFTP.
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr941nd

Searching on Google: TL-WR941nd v3 unbrick example video:
https://youtu.be/sxVP7WGzH_A

Someone else with more knowledge of this router may be able to suggest other ideas.

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Have you checked the old description for doing a factory reset? It's more detailed. https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.failsafe

Also, you don't need to use a serial cable to do a TFTP reinstall. It's described how to do it using ethernet in https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr941nd

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It really depends on the hardware revision here, v2/ v3 (including the latest OEM bootloaders) don't support push-button tftp recovery, making a serial connection mandatory.

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Have you tried to enter failsafe mode as suggested by @tmomas?
It cannot be damaged by deleting packages and should still work.

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Dear all

Many thanks for your help
after many trials I could enter failsafe mode, as the sys led
Flashing to fast as descriped.
But I still can not ping the router 192.168.1.1 in enter failsafe mode
So how to complete while I can not connect to it.
Should I go on serial connection OR
Any other ideas ??

You may need to give your PC a fixed IP address, something like 192.168.1.4

There is no DHCP server in failsafe mode., So your PC does not get proper IP.

If you have serial, you can naturally use that.

I already give my PC fixed Ip and connect it to
eth0 ( port 1 on the router )
But no ping from the router
No ssh
No telnet

Please show us your PC's network settings:

  • IP address and subnet mask of the interface connected to the router
  • IP routes

How exactly did you do that?

My pc:-
ip : 192.168.1.10
subnet : 255.255.255.0
I do not know * IP routes but I can ping
another pc on same subnet with up
192.168.1.20

about how do I delete packages :-1
I use somthing like this I do not remmber
opkg remove --autoremove
and it deads After that

Today I try TL-WR941nd v3 unbrick example video
as help from Mr. bill888
And now it works again very good

My question now I need to install zerotier on it which needs 291 kb while
I have only 88kb
So I need to remove unnecessary pkages to install zerotier
Please advive which pkages I should remove savetly ??

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Thanks to every one helps me

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