You said you confirmed the ESP baud rate. I assume you have a USB-Serial convertor which you attached to the ESP to upload the firmware? If you connect that and use a terminal program, does it respond to an AT command? It should respond with OK.
You said you confirmed the ESP baud rate. I assume you have a USB-Serial convertor which you attached to the ESP to upload the firmware? If you connect that and use a terminal program, does it respond to an AT command? It should respond with OK.