Disabling the hidden AP-XXXXXX WiFI AP on Gemtek gateways

These steps were provided by Browan to disable the hidden wifi AP that’s printed on the bottom of each unit.

This can be done by myDevices staff via the Remote Server, or locally by a client via SSH once connected to the WiFi AP.

Enable WAN SSH

This is important as we are shutting off the only way to locally ssh into the gateway that we ship with in a default configuration

uci add firewall rule
uci set firewall.@rule[-1].name=Allow-SSH
uci set firewall.@rule[-1].src=wan
uci set firewall.@rule[-1].proto=tcp
uci set firewall.@rule[-1].dest_port=22
uci set firewall.@rule[-1].family=ipv4
uci set firewall.@rule[-1].target=ACCEPT
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall restart

Please check you can SSH login through WAN port before you disable WiFi.

Disable WiFi:

uci set wireless.ra0.disabled='1'
uci set wireless.rai0.disabled='1'
uci commit wireless
/etc/init.d/network restart

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