Thanks a lot Alberto!!
I wasn't sure about uci-defaults being the correct way to do it - I was under
the impression it could happen that my script gets ran when it's too early and
/etc/config/wireless hasn't been generated yet.
If this isn't the case, then I think it's fine!
Thank you all!
On Tue, 6 Jul 2021, Alberto Bursi wrote:
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:36:18
From: Alberto Bursi <bobafetthotm...@gmail.com>
To: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org
Subject: Re: Enabling Wi-Fi on First boot
On 06/07/21 09:12, Enrico Mioso wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2021, Paul Spooren wrote:
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:06:14
From: Paul Spooren <m...@aparcar.org>
To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko...@gmail.com>, openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org
Subject: Re: Enabling Wi-Fi on First boot
On 7/5/21 8:45 PM, Enrico Mioso wrote:
Hello all!!
I would like to know your opinion on a topic I know has already been
discussed: enabling Wi-Fi on first boot.
I would very very much like to see this feature present in OpenWRt:
because I find myself in a scenario where plugging an Ethernet cable
after a fresh sysupgrade without keeping settings (due a a major upgrade
or just to "start clean") could be impractical.
I think you can add uci-default scripts to enable it or do you want a
config option during build time?
Hello Paul!!
Well, I tought about uci-defaults, but I tough it won't be so easy to
implement due to the fact Wi-Fi is probed asynchronously, and on some
devices i saw it takes a little bit (Netgear R7800).
I would have liked to have something already implemented in OpenWRt, so it
could be looked at by more people and have much higher chances of working
on all devices.
Enrico
The only thing that must be done by a uci-defaults script is to set the wifi
as enabled in the uci config.
Afaik all devices ship with a default config for an open wifi network called
"OpenWrt" for all their radios, but have
option disabled '1'
in both the device and wifi-iface text blocks, which disables the wifi.
The uci-defaults script should just delete that line recursively along the
whole /etc/config/wifi config file and it can be done with sed.
Since uci-defaults scripts are run before everything else, the device should
just have all wifi enabled on first boot no matter what wifi hardware it
actually uses.
You can easily turn this in a package (that only installs a uci-defaults
script), just look at any other package that sets a uci-default script like
this
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/bcp38/Makefile
and use it as a template for your own.
Since there are strong opinions are about keeping wifi off by default (last
time I checked even devices that have no other network interfaces can't have
a wifi enabled on first boot, forcing users to do a first config through the
debug UART console or integrate a custom wifi config file in a custom image)
I do not think many core developers will want to merge this package in core
repository, but you can try.
I think there should not be much problems if you send your package to
community packages repository.
https://github.com/openwrt/packages
-Alberto
From an implementation perspective, I don't think this feature needs to
be present on images we build with builtbots, nor official images at all.
It may be a config option a user can check when self-building his/her
images.
This would allow us to relax the security settings for the moment being,
and discuss and plan them later on. It seems to me there is the general
desire for having such a feature.
Thanks a lot!
Enrico
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