How to disable autostart on wifi?

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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this will prevent the broadcast from starting at all? does rc.local execute early enough?

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Usually the WiFi is on the last state you set. If you always want it off, add the disable commands to a startup script.

As noted:

Feel free to inquire if you have questions about this.

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Mine's actually a kill script, if you want to be picky about it, but I guess an Sxx script would work too... ,)

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tried that. doesnt work. system still starts with the wifi AP running.

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using the script causes the enabling to persist across reboots. i have installed the wifitoggle package, which seems capable of doing what i want. but there are no physical buttons on the router.

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https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifi_toggle#wi-fi_disable_after_boot

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doesnt work. enabling still persists.

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In /etc/rc.local

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan1 down

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take out the driver, manually reinstall when required, remove when done. Can be scripted.

Alternatively, softlink config to /tmp

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clearly I was joking, but I'm trying to understand the reason and the meaning of this. i do not get that.