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Topic: TL-WA830RE v2 recovery with serial?

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Wasn't certain if I had to post it here or in the general forum.

I flashed openwrt on my TL-WA830RE v2 the dev version. But when I tried to install Luci it said I didn't had enough space so I tried to flash back the stock firmware to try to get Chaos Calmer release with Luci build in.

Now the issue is that flashing the stock firmware back failed with a "failed to erase block". I stupidly rebooted the thing hoping that I could just retry it again. But now it's stuck in a boot loop I think.

When I power it on the Power Led and LAN led stays on and the WiFi led and the signal led?? keeps on flashing on and off. Aswell when connecting with a UTP cable my adapter keeps getting connection and losing it a sec later again.


Now I was wondering if it was possible to recover it over serial? and which cable would be the best to use for it?

some options

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