There is an opensource version of the wifi driver, however it's very buggy we haven't being able to get it working reliably

It's hard coded in the MediaTek driver

Hah, that's just effing terrible! No wonder, then!

There is an opensource version of the wifi driver, however it's very buggy we haven't being able to get it working reliably

Yeah, I use the F/OSS-driver in my firmwares and it sure doesn't perform nearly as well as the proprietary driver. On the other hand, it actually supports all the features one might expect from a modern WiFi-driver, including being built on the proper mac80211-stack.

Anyways, spanks for the response!

You can't just disable the AP and keep wifi client. You will have to disable wifi all together or make AP SSID hidden

Thank you for the reply. How to hide AP SSID?

https://lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/introduction_to_lede_configuration
https://lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/wifi_configuration

hidden | boolean | no | 0 | Turns off SSID broadcasting if set to 1

Tanti saluti Luciano S.

@Stefano-P. , check out the uci tool (don't just edit config files ... the source of mistakes is to big, with uci you will be on the saver side):

https://lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/introduction_to_lede_configuration
https://lede-project.org/docs/user-guide/wifi_configuration

hidden | boolean | no | 0 | Turns off SSID broadcasting if set to 1

Tanti saluti Luciano S.

For me the hidden flag did not work. Luciano, did it work for you

Grazie

uci show
uci set wireless.default_radio0.hidden='1'
uci commit
uci reload_config
reboot
...
result:
wireless.default_radio0=wifi-iface
wireless.default_radio0.device='radio0'
wireless.default_radio0.network='lan'
wireless.default_radio0.mode='ap'
wireless.default_radio0.ssid='Omega-####'
wireless.default_radio0.encryption='psk2'
wireless.default_radio0.key='thisismysecret'
wireless.default_radio0.hidden='1'

But i'm testing a LEDE image.

wireless.@wifi-iface[0].hidden='true'

but it did nothing, There is no default radio on the standard os

1. uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[0].hidden='1'
2. uci commit
3. reload_config
4. reboot
   Since 'hidden' value is set to 1, when my Omega boot up the AP ssid is hidden as expected.

Overall, i am happy with this chip ... i only wish there was more support especially on the source codes

Whatever.

Requires further testing, but I seemed to have killed the AP with:

iwpriv ra0 set Channel=0 # dead now

I wonder if it's a hidden driver setting or a bug or something; but it seems to have worked.

note that uci set wireless.ra0.channel=0 does NOT work. You have to iwpriv or the channel seems to be hardcoded at 11...

But the client works fine on channel 0 iff you set only the ra0 channel to 0.

So I made a new setting and kludged it in rudely just above the part where it sets the channel for the ra0 dev with iwpriv.

Note that applying this patch, while allowing uci set wireless.ra0.ra0_only_channel 0, will also prevent opkg from being able to update the ralink-wifi-mt76x8 package; possibly leaving you with no ralink drivers installed. Be sure to copy the ipk to /root/ if you plan to use this patch so you can rescue the system over serial... or just factory reset or whatever, that seems pretty painless.

--- ralink.sh-orig  2017-02-14 17:43:04.885469047 -0500
+++ ralink.sh-mine  2017-02-14 17:50:07.826365772 -0500
@@ -598,8 +598,15 @@
             
                set_wifi_up "$vif" "$ifname"
        done
-   
-   [ "$channel" != "auto" ] && iwpriv $device set Channel=$channel
+
+   # I made a slightly difference settings space so I could have a
+   # different channel for each device.
+   # 
+   # use uci set wireless.ra0.ra0_only_channel 0 to disable AP
+
+   config_get ${device}_only_channel $device mah_only_channel $channel
+
+   [ "$channel" != "auto" ] && iwpriv $device set Channel=$mah_only_channel
        iwpriv $device set MaxStaNum=$maxassoc
 }

I set the ssid and password to random strings of maximum length and hided the network, seems like this works

I shelved the omega2. It's a pile. It's neat as a novelty, but overall it's a pile. I'm using other devices instead.

Paul: Which device did you end up using?

But with the open source mt76 driver, disabling the AP is no problem.

And note that mt76 has matured a lot since this thread started a year ago! As a true open source project, there are people working steadily to improve it. There are updates every few weeks to make it better. For my needs, mt76 has become stable enough already many months ago. And it is a much cleaner setup, using standard cfg80211. I like it way better than these sad proprietary chunks of code tied to a specific kernel version and thus blocking all other progress!

uci set wireless.ap.hidden=1
uci commit wireless
wifi

Hi guys, I wanna know if it is possible to disable AP through command line.

1. Install Firmware 183.

2. Edit file /etc/config/wireless download example

3. Edit file /etc/config/network download example

4. A few seconds after the booting execute
   ifconfig ra0 down

The AP is turned off. Internet continues to work.

To start/stop wifi-ap execute
ifconfig ra0 up
ifconfig ra0 down

Download config files