[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH v2] axs10x: initilaze network for wireless access-point

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Felix,

On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 17:49 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2015-12-07 17:45, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > ARC SDP board sports only 1 network interface - eth0,
> > so to operate as an access point it requires at least
> > another interface (preferably wireless),
> > so USB Wi-Fi dongle is what we want.
> > 
> > And with USB Wi-Fi dongle attached ARC SDP board could be
> > used as a "dumb" wireless access point.
> > 
> > Now with modified network setup script it is only required
> > to enable wireless radio on the first boot with
> > -------------->8------------
> > uci set wireless.radio0.disabled=0
> > uci commit wireless
> > wifi
> > -------------->8------------
> > 
> > Note if by the time initscripts are executed USB Wi-Fi
> > dongle not yet recognized and set up by Linux kernel
> > its autodetection by "wifi" tool may not happen
> > automatically. In that case before issuing command above
> > one needs to populate /etc/config/wireless config:
> > -------------->8------------
> > wifi detect > /etc/config/wireless
> > -------------->8------------
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> > Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
> > Cc: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow at openwrt.org>
> > Cc: Jonas Gorski <jogo at openwrt.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes compared to v1:
> >  * Rebased on top of current master
> > 
> >  target/linux/arc770/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/target/linux/arc770/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network b/target/linux/arc770/base
> > -files/etc/board.d/02_network
> > index cd5ad2d..7c74d2d 100755
> > --- a/target/linux/arc770/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
> > +++ b/target/linux/arc770/base-files/etc/board.d/02_network
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ board_config_update
> >  case "$( arc_board_name )" in
> >  "arc-sdp"*)
> >  	ucidef_set_interface_lan "eth0" "dhcp"
> > +	uci set network.lan.type='bridge'
> board.d files should not be calling uci, and I don't think this line
> even works. By the way, I don't think such a change is needed anymore,
> did you test the current code as-is?

Frankly I havent's tested it yet.