Turning Edison into an WLAN/WiFi Access Point:
link - confirmed, working with mini breakout board as well just press the power button >4sec & <7sec sec and you will
find a hotspot with the name you have given your Edison during setup, use the given root pwd
to get a connection. My Edison can now be reached e.g. from smartphone via SSH 192.168.42.1<your Edison IP address>
ATTENTION: will stay in AP mode after reboot!
You want manuelly to switch back from AP mode in Client mode of Wifi? simply run configure_edison --setup again
systemctl stop hostapd
systemctl disable hostapd
systemctl enable wpa_supplicant
systemctl start wpa_supplicant
wpa_cli reconfigure
wpa_cli select_network wlan0
udhcpc -i wlan0
hint: if you want to understand more about the power switch settings check this link (external)