Re: Turn PirateBox to Access Point

Hi,

so you have two issues to

- Switch between AP and PirateBox mode based on the status of the ethernet connection
- Provide Internet Access (and turn of PirateBox).

First of all, you need to change the behavior of the Ethernet port to be used as a WAN port. I a while ago, I wrote a script for that purpose. You can find that one here.
Important: In your case, it might be helpful to enable ssh on the WAN port before rebooting.

The script for enabling the INPUT on the WAN port is

#!/bin/sh

wan_num="null"

for i in 0 1 2 3 ; do
   uci_name=$( uci get firewall.@zone[$i].name )
   if [ "$uci_name" = "wan" ] ; then
        wan_num=$i
   fi
done

if [ "$wan_num" = "null" ] ; then
        echo "ERROR: Could not find WAN zone entry"
        exit 2
fi

echo "Zone number is $wan_num"

uci set firewall.@zone[$i].input='ACCEPT'

echo "Input for WAN enabled"
echo
echo "Remember to run 'uci commit' after you are done with the configuration"

exit 0

If you want to enable normal AP mode, you need to disable PirateBox service and enable the normal dnsmasq configuration:

/etc/init.d/piratebox stop
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq start

If you want to leave PirateBox up and running, you need to modify the PirateBox configuration and some other points, I need to figure out.... because this is usually unsupported.

best regards Matthias