We don't really need any files in there, and keeping the folder can interfere with the programs that populate /etc/aredn_include on firstboot from uci-default.
This will cause the node to boot up in default mode (with an AP on its interface on the default channels) during its first boot, and than very quickly reboot and come up under the mesh.
Deals with the fact that TPLink has max powers that differ based on frequency and are programed into the chip lower than what the manufacture states in its datasheet.
We want to make sure we don't fry any boards so we honor what the chip programming is set to.
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Mainly relates to TP-Link devices which have a roving power level programmed into the hardware.
The datasheets for the hardware may say higher power but the chip has been programmed to not go above these values.
Regression of changeset:e34b7fcee49c3e2b7eb35aa4fb44b6abdc78b3ad/aredn_ar71xx
Having moved to iw for iwinfo we have a regression previous commit.
Restore fix that if not seen after 10 seconds signal drops from display.
We should of used the freq: field, not sure why I did not use it to begin with.
Corrected and added a small function to convert from frequency to channel.
The code makes the assumption that the connection has not been modified to be encrypted (Standard is not under AREDN V3 protocol) but this may need to be changed in the future.
Not getting much debug information at moment, would like to put this in uci-defaults but with issues that I can't seem to log at moment (and not having serial cable for this device) I'm going with lets put it in /etc/init.d/local before nvram and similar gets set.
ref AREDN->ticket:115
Due to issues we are pulling the showing of tunnels untill we can better detect them.
We are also pulling dtdlink as all AREDN nodes should have dtdlink enabled.
Old code would set mac on the sub-vlan not the master interface which could cause issues.
Rework to be more functional in the future and to work correctly on vlan interfaces.
ref AREDN->ticket:115
Switch to iw over iwinfo because it handles the new channels better.
Partially reverts changeset:808a8d5019fce4a7ca2c027ea7838d43c6d8cad0/aredn_ar71xx
fixes AREDN->ticket:129
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