GL.iNet Slate 7 Pro

Check the requirements

The validated baseline is the GL-BE10000 on GL.iNet firmware 4.8.4, kernel 5.4.281, with the stock mt_wifi driver. The app checks the model, kernel and driver hash before it offers capture. A different firmware is not offered, even if its version label looks close.

Use WLAN Commander app build 125 or later, and control the router over a wired connection: Ethernet from the phone or computer to a LAN port.

Connect

1. Finish GL.iNet's initial setup and choose its admin password.
2. Connect the router's LAN port to your phone or computer by Ethernet.
3. In Commander Devices, connect to the router over SSH as root with that admin password.

Scan and capture

Select the Slate in the AP scanner, Client scanner or Capture tool. Capture works on one radio at a time: 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz, at 20 MHz. When a scan starts, the app copies a small helper to the router's /tmp; nothing is installed permanently.

• Capturing pauses that radio's hotspot, and Stop restores it.
• The app refuses to capture on a radio that has clients associated with it.
• 6 GHz capture is not available. Ordinary 6 GHz router scans still work.
• Simultaneous capture on two radios and saving a capture on the router are not supported.

Tested on 2026-10-15 with the iOS app against a real router over wired Ethernet. AP and client scans ran on 2.4 and 5 GHz, and a channel 6, 20 MHz capture streamed and saved. Results from Android and from other phones are not yet recorded.

Commander on a USB stick (in development)

A separate experimental port boots the WLAN Commander image from a paired USB stick and falls back to the stock GL.iNet firmware when the stick is absent. The app can switch between the two from the device screen. Installing the port rewrites the router's internal firmware storage. It has no public download or installer and is not a supported board.

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