[LEDE-DEV] Is there a Image for TP-Link TL-WA854RE (WiFi Range Extender) ?

[Daniel Golle]

Hi Dennis,
Hi Alberto,

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 07:02:54PM +0000, Alberto Bursi wrote:
> > Anyway, for proper support we'd need either:
> >  * adding wireless interface being enabled as AP
> >  * mimic WPS button functionality of stock firmware
> >
> There are some such wifi-only devices supported like the "D-Link 
> DCH-M225 Wi-Fi Audio Extender", and it seems they have wifi enabled by 
> default with this commit:
> https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/0d5277f73fe4071df4273784e3252d520cef8a6e

Nice, I missed that one. It was replaced by
https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/bcfbeae79f799cf1087d692e4869589eb20d2080
(because via uci-defaults it couldn't work reliably, as wifi config
wouldn't always even exist at this point)

Now the KEY_RFKILL needs to be pressed in order to enabled wifi, then
button-hotplug (or gpio-button-hotplug) will enabled the wifi.

This still leaves us without failsafe mode and hard-to-access UART, so
it'd make more sense to revive
https://github.com/openwrt/packages-abandoned/tree/master/utils/restorefactory
for those devices (or is there an easy way to have wifi enabled in
failsafe mode?)


Cheers


Daniel