Enabling Wi-Fi on First boot

[Enrico Mioso]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021, Paul Spooren wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:06:14
> From: Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org>
> To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>, openwrt-devel at 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

>> 
>> 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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