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

[Alberto Bursi]

On 02/19/2017 12:51 PM, Piotr Dymacz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2017-02-19 11:41 GMT+01:00 Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org>:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Maybe a similar one that does what the "force enable wifi" script did
>>> would do the trick?
>>
>> Well, it's not as simple as that. We need to generate a config for
>> hostapd which matches the wifi hardware in terms of capabilities and
>> band and launch it and bring up the interface (configure IP address and
>> stuff) once hostapd comes up... possible, but quite a lot of work...
>
> If we assume that the problem is only inside wrong configuration
> applied to the device, reverting it back to the defaults (I assume
> here that default config for devices without Ethernet interface means
> also that the Wi-Fi is enabled by default) should be enough to bring
> back device to life.
>

After Mathias's commit (as noted by other mails above) the devices we 
are talking about have wifi disabled by default but you can enable it 
with the wps button.
https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/bcfbeae79f799cf1087d692e4869589eb20d2080

Imho makes no sense as in most cases you will have to configure them 
anyway to be of any use (you can't just place them in a network with 
default config as they lack a ethernet port), so this "wifi off by 
default" and "remapping wps button to rfkill" imho is only an annoyance 
and removal of a potentially useful button that could be used for other 
things (enabling/disabling something else with scripts after user setup).

-Alberto