Hi,
I did something stupid today. Because my TP-Link TL-WR841ND v8.1 was still running an old rc1 I reflashed the image with a more recent openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr841n-v8-squashfs-factory.bin, which worked without problems.
Then I wanted to configure it as a repeater and deleted all previous interfaces. Thought I configure the new myself... You see the misstake ? As soon as I deleted the lan-interface (which was the last one) the router was not accessible anymore. So I tried to get into failsafemode but I can't connect to it. I followed these instructions: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- … lsafe.mode . I get the system-led to blink rapidly but I can't telnet to the router.
I put the lan-cabel to port 1 on the router and on my pc. Then I configured my pc like this:
% sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
% sudo ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1b:24:94:67:9e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 11343 bytes 4258887 (4.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 13842 bytes 5206913 (4.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
% sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
% sudo ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:1b:24:94:67:9e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 11343 bytes 4258887 (4.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 13842 bytes 5206913 (4.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Then I power off and on the router, wait for the system-led to blink, press the button and the system-led starts to blink more fast, which should indicate failsafe-boot. ifconfig now shows RUNNING next to eth0 but I can't connect to or even ping the router:
% sudo ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21b:24ff:fe94:679e prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1b:24:94:67:9e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 11343 bytes 4258887 (4.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 13848 bytes 5207401 (4.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
% telnet 192.168.1.1
Trying 192.168.1.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: no route to host
% ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
Do you have any idea what the problem could be? I hope I don't have to throw it in the garbage..
greetings