How to remove all supporting to wireless

For Developers
1

Hi, I don't need any features about wireless, and I want build a image as small as possible.

Would anyone pls tell me what can I do?

At best, there is nothing about wireless in Luci GUI.

Thanks a lot!!!

2

I think it would help if you mentioned what device you want to do this on

By the way, there's no specific luci package that deals with wireless

as a start, you don't need

  • iw
  • iwinfo
  • libiwinfo-data
  • libiwinfo-lua
  • libiwinfo*
  • rpcd-mod-iwinfo
  • wireless-regdb
3

Thanks for your Help!!!

Mainly, I need to remove all elements in Web GUI, for example, in luci dashboard, status pages, all things about wireless would not be displayed.

4

yeah, not sure, but I think if there's no wireless devices, then luci doesn't display the page - at least, that's how it works for my edgerouter-x

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5

But the luci-app-status/luci-app-statistics are required, and they always display the status of wireless.

6

Then you can't get rid of them if they're required

You've tried this with no wireless devices?

By the way, I have neither of those packages installed - so they aren't required (except maybe it's your requirement)

You still haven't mentioned your target device - perhaps the answer is simple - but without more information from you, the answer is a pineapple

7

Sorry, my device is Marvell CN9130-CRB.

Surely it has no wireless device.

8

then what's the issue - is the wireless section present in network?

is there an image for that already?

Oh, wait, that's not a router, that's an SoC - are you creating a brand new device or something?

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9

Yes, I'm adding a new device supporting for OpenWRT.

10

Hello:

Just came across this thread, sorry for the bump.

I went looking for information on removing wi-fi related files from my OperWRT installation which runs on a single drive WD-MBL with the 21.02.2-factory version for this hardware:

:~$ uname -v
#0 Wed Feb 16 20:29:10 2022
:~$

:~$ uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 5.4.179 #0 Wed Feb 16 20:29:10 2022 ppc GNU/Linux
:~$

While doing the last update and looking at the UI, I realised that it was updating these wi-fi related files:

iwinfo
libiwinfo-data
libiwinfo-lua
libiwinfo-20210430

Strange, because this WD-NAS does not have wi-fi or even USB.
Just a hidden/poorly documented headerless UART and a RJ-45 jack for the GbE controller.

So why these wi-fi files?
Are they needed for something else?

I did not (at least don't recall doing it) install these files and wonder why it is that they are part of the installed image.

eg: iw, libiwinfo*, rpcd-mod-iwinfo and wireless-regdb are not installed.

When you go into the UI and click remove, you don't get a dependency warning and an option to cancel so it is a chance I don't want to take.

Please advise.
Thanks in advance.

Best.

PCL

11

They're inherited from the global default package set. You should be able to safely remove them.

12

Hello:

Right.

Today I did some more reading on the matter and realised that there would be no gain in doing so as the freed space would remain in place, so to speak.
ie: marked as reserved, no space would be recovered.

To gain anything I'd have to generate a custom image without those packages.
I still have to get used to how these embedded systems work.

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer in an old thread. =^)
Best,

PCL