Feature Request. Disable Wireless

bobtheman · March 11, 2012

since you can stop all other services I think it would be nice to disable wireless also. This way you can plug in and setup the device before sending out its ssid

Whistle Master · March 11, 2012

You can also issue the command through the Advanced menu:

ifconfig wlan0 down

bobtheman · March 12, 2012

sure no problem.

yes ifconfig wlan up/down will work

im just indicating a button on the status page where you can stop and start all other services would be ideal.

Valsacar · March 13, 2012

You could always add one by editing the index.php page appropriately. Of course, that will only last until you upgrade firmware.

bobtheman · March 13, 2012

interesting. is the mk4 source code online somewhere like on github where I could commit it

WatskeBart · April 25, 2012

EDIT: I've change the commands given by start/stopwlan.php, instead of ifconfig i used wifi so the monitor interface will be started/shutdown as well. Complete WiFi silence when turned off ;)

I updated the index.php myself :)

Here's what you do ;)

Use your favorite texteditor to edit this file:

/www/pineapple/index.php

Look for this piece of code:

$iswlanup = exec("ifconfig wlan0 | grep UP | awk '{print $1}'");
if ($iswlanup == "UP") {
echo " Wireless  &lt;font color=\"lime\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;enabled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;";
} else { echo " Wireless  &lt;font color=\"red\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;disabled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"; }

comment the code so it doesn't work anymore, because we are going to make some "new" code

change it so it looks like this: (note the /* above and the */ under the code)

/*
$iswlanup = exec("ifconfig wlan0 | grep UP | awk '{print $1}'");
if ($iswlanup == "UP") {
echo " Wireless  &lt;font color=\"lime\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;enabled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;";
} else { echo " Wireless  &lt;font color=\"red\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;disabled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;"; }
*/

Add the following code under the code you just commented:

if ( exec("ifconfig wlan0 | grep UP | awk '{print $1}'") == "UP" ){
$iswlanup = true;
}
if ($iswlanup != "") {
echo " Wireless  &lt;font color=\"lime\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;enabled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;.  | &lt;a href=\"config/stopwlan.php\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stop&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;";
} else { echo " Wireless  &lt;font color=\"red\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;disabled&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;. | &lt;a href=\"config/startwlan.php\"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Start&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"; }

Save your index.php

Now we are almost there but we need to make two more files.

Create a file called startwlan.php and add follwing code:

&lt;?php
exec ("wifi");
?&gt;
&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/pineapple/"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body bgcolor="black" text="white"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
&lt;?php
echo "Wireless started";
?&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;/body&gt;

And create a file called stopwlan.php and add following code:

&lt;?php
exec("wifi down");
?&gt;
&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/pineapple/"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body bgcolor="black" text="white"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
&lt;?php
echo "Wireless disabled";
?&gt;
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;/body&gt;

Copy the files startwlan.php and stopwlan.php to /www/pineapple/config/

Refresh your Status page and voila! :D

There are probably much easier and cleaner ways to do this, but it works and i wanted to contribute ;)

Some screenies :D

Edited April 27, 2012 by WatskeBart

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