I was trying to create an WiFi hotspot for my android device. I used ap-hotspot to do so.
I configured the ap-hotspot using
sudo ap-hotspot configure
Then I started ap-hotspot using
sudo ap-hotspot start
Then it shows this
Starting Wireless Hotspot...
And then nothing happens, no further message is displayed, hotspot is not created.
What is Wrong? How to fix it?
Best Answer
ap-hotspot
useshostapd
to create wireless networkI had problems creating hotspot using
hostapd
in Ubuntu 14.04 mainly because new version ofhostapd
in 14.04 default repository is buggy.You can solve this problem by downgrading
hostapd
in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to a previous versionUninstall buggy
hostapd
using apt-get:Then install non-buggy version of hostapd:
64 - bit:
32 - bit:
"sudo apt-mark hold hostapd" will prevent hostapd to upgrade to the buggy version.
Then try running
ap-hotspot
again, I think it should work. It worked for me like a charm.