Linux Mint 15 WiFi hotspot options

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I'm trying to configure a hotspot in my Linux Mint 15. There are no specific manuals for 15, but I found this video which describes hot to make a hotspot in Mint 14.

Creating it in Mint 15 not much differ, but I cannot find a button to configure hotspot. Here is how my Network Manager looks like when hotspot is on:

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I cannot find Options button. Hot can I configure SSID, security type and key without it?

Best Answer

Haven't used Mint 15 myself, but, you can right click on the Network Manager icon in your panel and select Edit Connections.

You will see a option 'Hotspot' under the Wi-Fi section. Edit that and you can set the SSID, the type of security(WEP/ WPA2) and the key.

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See my answer to the "Create wireless access point and share internet connection with nmcli"

I created a Hotspot with the GNOME Network-Manager. The problem was, that I can not configure the SSID and password in GUI. If you create the Hotspot with the Network-Manager GUI, it creates the file /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Hotspot. In that file it is possible to edit the SSID and the password.

sudo vim /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Hotspot

The content of the file looks like this:

[connection]
id=Hotspot
uuid=0bf627gd-8e34-48c6-865a-06f898b4y1hb
type=wifi
autoconnect=false
permissions=
secondaries=

[wifi]
hidden=false
mac-address=YOUR_WIFI_INTERFACE_MAC_ADDRESS
mac-address-blacklist=
mode=ap
seen-bssids=
ssid=SSID_NAME

[wifi-security]
group=ccmp;
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
pairwise=ccmp;
proto=rsn;
psk=YOUR_WIFI_AP_PASSWORD

[ipv4]
dns-search=
method=shared

[ipv6]
dns-search=
method=auto

I only changed the ssid and the psk properties to my needs. Then I restarted my computer because the command: sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager for network restart seems not to work correctly, because in the Network-Manager GUI I have no wireless network settings anymore and also the following command worked not before the restart. After restart you can use the nmcli command to start the access point.

nmcli con up Hotspot ifname YOUR_WIFI_INTERFACE

YOUR_WIFI_INTERFACE you can find out with the command iwconfig.

Linux – Create a wifi hotspot on Gnome 3 / Arch Linux

I fixed by installing modemmanager and enabling it

sudo systemctl start ModemManager.service && sudo systemctl enable ModemManager.service

Now the hotspot starts and divices can connect to it. However there's still no configuration available for the hotspot (i.e. change name, wep etc).

Initially it was working but still a little buggy especially with virtualbox and webservices... however I just got a systemd update few minutes ago and now everything seems to be working well and fast.

During my attempts I aslo installed and enabled wpa_supplicant.service but I'm not sure it is actually required (I'll try to disable it to check).

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