I am trying to enable / disable the wifi device in my android device in a bash script. I am using the terminal emulator and the program Script Manager to execute bash scripts on the phone (which is a rooted Nexus One). The normal way to do this in linux would be something like
ifconfig eth0 up
That gives me
"eth0: no such device"
Trying
iwconfig eth0
gives the same, and
iwconfig
gives a list of devices with no eth0 on it. Now if I turn on wifi (manually from the GUI) and type
iwconfig
it shows eth0 with a lot of info.
My question is: How can I use the command line to turn on / off wifi? And why is eth0 disappearing from the device list when wifi is disabled?
thanks.