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- | ====== Turning on/off radio elements from script ====== | + | ====== Turning on/ |
===== Full Wireless operation ===== | ===== Full Wireless operation ===== | ||
- | If you want to enable/ | + | If you want to enable/ |
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+ | **Toggle: | ||
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+ | **Force radio off:** | ||
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+ | **Force radio on:** | ||
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+ | ===== Specific Wireless chipset (2.4/5GHz) operations ===== | ||
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+ | Modern routers come with two or more chipsets/ | ||
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+ | Once you've identified the name of the appropriate radio interface (via the [[advanced-wlanvifs|Virtual Wireless]] page): | ||
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+ | Do not blindly use this table. It is only an example. Router interface names may vary. For full chipset operation, refer to the " | ||
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+ | For example, using " | ||
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+ | **Verify interface state** | ||
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+ | **Toggle interface state** | ||
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+ | **Force interface off** | ||
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+ | **Force interface on** | ||
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+ | ===== WiFi SSID-specific operation ===== | ||
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+ | In some cases, you might want to just restrict access to only one specific SSID or change settings specific to only one WiFi interface. | ||
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+ | This can be achieved as follows: | ||
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+ | First, identify the SSID virtual interface you want to control. The full list of WiFi interfaces on your router and all its sub-interfaces can be found in the [[advanced-wireless|Virtual Wireless]] menu. | ||
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+ | Virtual interfaces are always defined as: '' | ||
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+ | For example, on this router, in the Virtual Wireless menu, we can see the 2.4GHz interface named: " | ||
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+ | \\ \\ {{: | ||
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+ | Now, let's assume you want to turn off wl1.3 which is associated to SSID " | ||
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+ | We could perform the following tasks:\\ | ||
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+ | **Toggle interface state**\\ | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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+ | **Force Interface Off** | ||
- | **Toggle**\\ | + | \\ \\ '' |
- | '' | + | |
- | **Force off**\\ | + | \\ |
- | ''/ | + | |
- | **Force on**\\ | + | \\ |
- | ''/ | + | |
+ | **Force Interface On** | ||
- | ===== Wireless chipset (2.4/5GHz) specific operation ===== | + | \\ \\ '' |
- | Modern routers come with 2 or more chipsets, there' | + | \\ |
- | {{: | + | \\ |
- | Do not blindly use this table. Check what it says on your router as it might be different. FOr full chipset operation we refer to the ethX name reference of the interface. Once you have the correct name (I'm using eth1 in my example here below), you can check the status of your wireless interface as follow: | + | |
- | **Verify**\\ | ||
- | '' | ||
- | [ $(wl -i $int radio | grep -Eo [0-1]$) -eq 1 ] && echo "radio $int is off" || echo "radio $int is on"'' | ||
- | **Toggle**\\ | + | ==== Wireless SSID-specific operation ==== |
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- | [ $(wl -i $int radio | grep -Eo [0-1]$) -eq 1 ] && wl -i $int radio on || wl -i $int radio off'' | + | |
- | **Force off**\\ | + | Often, a specific defined SSID operates on multiple interfaces/ |
- | '' | + | |
- | wl -i $int radio off'' | + | |
- | **Force | + | You can disable that SSID on all interfaces everywhere, as follows:\\ |
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- | wl -i $int radio on'' | + | |
- | ===== Wireless SSID specific operation ===== | + | \\ |
- | There might be cases where you don't want to affect the full radio chipset but rather restrict access to a specific SSID. This is achieved as follow: | + | **Force Off** |
- | - Identify the SSID virtual interface you want to affect. Remember virtual interfaces are always defined as [ main wireless interface name ] + [.] + [a number 0-3] so e.g. " | + | |
- | {{: | + | |
- | Now let's assume you want to turn off wl1.3 which is associated to SSID " | + | \\ \\ ''SSID=MYCOOLSSID'' |
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- | Let's perform the following:\\ | + | \\ |
- | **Toggle**\\ | + | \\ |
- | '' | + | **Force On** |
- | [ $(wl -i $int radio | grep -Eo [0-1]$) -eq 1 ] && wl -i $int radio on || wl -i $int radio off'' | + | |
- | **Force Off**\\ | + | \\ \\ |
- | '' | + | |
- | wl -i $int radio off'' | + | |
- | **Force On**\\ | + | \\ |
- | '' | + | |
- | wl -i $int radio on'' | + | |
- | ==== Wireless SSID specific operation ==== | + | \\ |
- | Let's say, as it often happens), a specific SSID you have defined is operational on multiple interfaces/ | + | \\ |
- | **Force Off**\\ | ||
- | '' | ||
- | nvram show | grep ssid | grep $SSID | while read line; do wl -i $(echo $line | cut -d" | ||
- | **Force On**\\ | ||
- | '' | ||
- | nvram show | grep ssid | grep $SSID | while read line; do wl -i $(echo $line | cut -d" |