How to apply new wireless settings on an OpenWRT router without rebooting it?

Question

After I manually edit the:

vi /etc/config/wireless

file, what should I do to apply the modifications? Until this day I rebooted the router, but aren't there any better solutions? (and no, www is disabled on the router)

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '15 at 20:10

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There is special wifi command. There is a lot of references but I didn't find any standalone manual for it.

Usage: /sbin/wifi [down|detect|reload|status]

To apply wireless settings use

wifi reload

answered Mar 29 '15 at 20:10

Alexander Klimenko

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '15 at 06:32

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/etc/init.d/network reload

source: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/netifd

answered Jul 26 '15 at 06:32

Ahmed Youssef

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No, what you are saying here is for `/etc/config/network`, not for `/etc/config/wireless` – hzh Sep 01 '18 at 04:15
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@huangzonghao When you run `/etc/init.d/network reload` it calls `/sbin/wifi reload_legacy` in the `reload_service` part of the script so it does reload the wireless settings. – Terrance Apr 06 '19 at 02:45

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 23 '16 at 05:09

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None of the answers worked for me. The only one that works fine, run:

/sbin/wifi

edited Aug 23 '16 at 05:09

answered Aug 23 '16 at 04:43

user186063

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 26 '15 at 19:23

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It is a good practice to reboot the router so that new wireless changes can be applied to the wireless portion of the router. Alternatively, you can use:

wifi down
wifi up

answered Jun 26 '15 at 19:23

UbaId Ashraf

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How to apply new wireless settings on an OpenWRT router without rebooting it?

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