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Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:53 am
by Adamon1
Hello,
the previous version 1.9.2 contained a change to enable the hardware wifi on/off switch (add 'phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9118&start=20' to the gargyole-router web address to see, I can't post urls
).
From what I can see, the neccessary kernel module is also provided in the latest gargoyle firmware
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opkg list-installed |grep polldev
kmod-input-polldev - 3.18.75-1-85ebbd687615e332b5e1d1c2b6f80fc0
I tried to repeat the steps mentioned in the a.m. thread, i.e.
- echo 23 > export
echo in > gpio23/direction
made the changes to the gargoyle_button_handler
made the changes to /etc/config/system, restarted/rebooted
to no avail. Am I doing something wrong or has this feature been removed?
Adamon
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:29 am
by Lantis
Can you please follow the steps 1 and by 1 and tell me where you get stuck? There's a lot that needs to happen to get it to work.
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:42 pm
by Adamon1
Hello Lantis,
I will reply to you tomorrow. I am facing nightmares when reloading configs, resulting in all ethernet ports being inaccessible.
Just got the router back on line, I am too exhausted to properly reply.
Hope you are still around tomorrow
Cheers,
Adamon
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:09 am
by Adamon1
Back again. Here is what I did:
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opkg list-installed |grep polldev
kmod-input-polldev - 3.18.75-1-85ebbd687615e332b5e1d1c2b6f80fc0
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switch is linked to gpio-13:
root@Gargoyle:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio
GPIOs 0-23, ath79:
gpio-12 (tp-link:blue:wlan2g ) out lo
gpio-13 (RFKILL switch ) in lo
....
gpio-22 (USB1 power ) out h
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assigning switch to gpio-23, testing on/off
root@Gargoyle:~# cd /sys/class/gpio/
root@Gargoyle:/sys/class/gpio# echo 23 > export
root@Gargoyle:/sys/class/gpio# echo in > gpio23/direction
root@Gargoyle:/sys/class/gpio# cat gpio23/value
0
root@Gargoyle:/sys/class/gpio# cat gpio23/value
1
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replaced the gargoyle_button_handler with the script from Lantis (amend "logger the button was $BUTTON and the action was $ACTION") in /etc/rc.button/gargoyle_button_handler
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checked whether rfkill is linked to the gargoyle_button_handler
ls -l /etc/rc.button/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 25 2017 failsafe -> gargoyle_button_handler
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 528 Jun 19 09:54 gargoyle_button_handler
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 25 2017 power -> gargoyle_button_handler
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 25 2017 reset -> gargoyle_button_handler
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 25 2017 rfkill -> gargoyle_button_handler
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 25 2017 wps -> gargoyle_button_handler
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amended /etc/config/system by
config button 'wifi_on'
option button 'rfkill'
option action 'pressed'
option handler 'wifi up'
config button 'wifi_off'
option button 'rfkill'
option action 'released'
option handler 'wifi down
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rebooted
cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio
GPIOs 0-23, ath79:
gpio-12 (tp-link:blue:wlan2g ) out lo
gpio-13 (RFKILL switch ) in lo
gpio-14 (tp-link:blue:system ) out lo
gpio-15 (tp-link:blue:qss ) out hi
gpio-16 (Reset button ) in hi
gpio-17 (tp-link:blue:wlan5g ) out lo
gpio-18 (tp-link:green:usb1 ) out hi
gpio-19 (tp-link:green:usb2 ) out hi
gpio-21 (USB2 power ) out hi
gpio-22 (USB1 power ) out hi
During these steps I did logreads, but no event was ever recorded upon switching the slider.
It seems that the assignment to gpio-23 is getting lost during reboot, so the system file and the gargoyle_button_handler loose their targets. Therefore tried again, but ran /etc/init.d/system restart instead of booting...no difference
Did I miss a step?
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:55 am
by Lantis
Reading through the last thread, it looks like the only success you had was when i performed the GPIO mod for you in a precompiled image. Perhaps it will not allow you to change it if it already exists? I expect the problem becomes needing to move the rfkill reference from 13 to 23, but i do not know how to do it.
The modification for the precompiled image is quite simple, and is the way i would recommend to do it.
Alternatively, it will be already fixed in version 1.11.x (of which there are some betas available)
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:41 am
by Adamon1
The modification for the precompiled image is quite simple, and is the way i would recommend to do it.
Do you have a howto at hand? I would be willing to dig into this.
version 1.11.x (of which there are some betas available)
where can they be found? Checked /ericpaulbishop/gargoyle.git on github.com, did not see any
Adamon
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:00 am
by Adamon1
Hold on ....
just noticed
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ls -l /etc/rc.button/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 625 Jun 19 10:30 gargoyle_button_handler
the execution bit was missing (I edited the file remotely and copied it back
). Added "x" back.
Still no logread output when sliding the switch. No difference therefore.
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:09 pm
by ispyisail
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:34 pm
by Lantis
So you need to compile 1.10.x from source, and add a new patch to “patches-generic” which modifies the file at target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ath79/mach-archer-c7.c
Line 53 needs to change from 13 to 23
That should be all that is required.
Re: Wifi on/off switch Archer C7?
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:00 am
by Adamon1
All right, cheers mates. So I have to wait for the (hopefully coming soon) version 1.11.0.
I am not familiar with the terminology, and a thorough read of the wiki for developers page and some other forum entries convinced me that I do not understand anything and should keep me fingers off trying to mess around with the router firmware.
Adamon