Disable private wifi

[ilvalle@…]

Like for the public wifi, it would be great to have the possibility to disable the private wifi as well.
For example, this improves the wifi performance when the fonera are used in wifi(-bridge) mode.

[matthijs]

Sounds like a plan! However, I won't be including this in 2.3.7.0 anymore, since it will require some thorough testing (I'm afraid a lot of code assumes the private signal is enabled).

[ilvalle@…]

I finally re-started my 2.0n, I am just wondering how difficult would be to implement this enhancement.

[matthijs]

In essence, this could work by changing trunk/fon/fonbase/files/lib/fon/config.sh to disbable the private network (e.g., by changing the "ssid" to "off" in config_wireless in line 433.

I _think_ this might be all that is needed to shut off the private signal. However, there might be parts of the firmware that assume the interface is available and running (though I can't think of any just now), so the most work would be to do some thorough testing.

If you try this, please let me know the results!

[ilvalle@…]

Sorry, could you point me which line I have to change?

[matthijs]

Didn't I just do this? If you change this line:  http://trac.fonosfera.org/fon-ng/browser/trunk/fon/fonbase/files/lib/fon/config.sh#L433 to: uci_set "wireless" "private" "ssid" "off"

I think the private wifi should remain disabled.