OK, I tracked down how it is being called during startup, its called by bb-wl18xx-wlan0, which is installed as a systemd service., but the first two questions stand, whats the best way to make SoftAp0 something that can be turned on and off at will via the command line?
On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 2:05:23 PM UTC-5, Matrioux wrote: > > > Hey, > > I've been through bb-wl18xx-tether and understand (mostly) what it is > doing. However after boot, once there is an established wlan0 connection I > would like to be able to shutdown SoftAp0, then start it up again if, and > only if, the wlan0 connection fails. > > Questions: > > 1) I see functions meant to start it up at boot, are there any pre-written > functions to bring it back down in another script? > 2) If not, what order should I undo things > 3) How is this being called during the boot process > > Iv'e tried killing hostapd and doing 'ip link set dev SoftAp0 down', but > doing so seems to cause issues with wlan0 stability, I get more lag with > the wlan0 connection. > > While I am not new to linux, I am still trying to wrap my head around some > of the low level networking and the BeagleBone specific files for the first > time. > > Thanks, > > Matrioux > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/a97e595b-a8aa-4c07-84da-9f6b58594c35%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
