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Questions tagged [access-point]

Running a wifi access point (hotspot)

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Create wireless access point and share internet connection with nmcli

How can I create a Wi-Fi hotspot with the command line tool nmcli and share/bridge the ethernet internet connection with the wireless access point? Furthermore, how can I start this automatically at boot? Is this possible with nmcli?
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starting hostapd fails -- ACS: Unable to collect survey data

I'm on a jessie on an embedded device, trying to set the WLAN into AP mode. When I try # /usr/sbin/hostapd -P /run/hostapd.wlan0.pid /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf ACS: Automatic channel selection started,…
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Single wifi card, Connect to multiple access points simultaneously

As we know, We can create virtual wireless interface using iw dev (1). Also, We can change it's MAC address using ifconfig hw ether
. Then We can Set two different access points (SSIDs) to each of these inetrfaces using Network…
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hostapd multiple SSIDs with one BSSID

I have a wl12xx wifi adapter that unfortunately does not seem to support creating multiple access points. If I run iw list it outputs this line: interface combinations are not supported If I run hostapd with multiple SSIDs set up if sometimes…
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Can't start isc-dhcp-server because of the Error : Not configured to listen on any interfaces!

I try to set up a wifi access point with hostapd and isc-dhcpd but the dhcp server doesn't work. The conf file is the same I found in this tutorial: [Hostapd : The Linux Way to create Virtual Wifi Access Point][1] !!! I still have the problem and i…
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wpa_supplicant doesn't auto-change AP

(I was trying and trying for hours to find a workaround, which proved much harder than initially expected.) The problem itself is easy to understand, though. I recently installed a GUI-less Debian derivative on one of my machines and configured…
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Redirecting Request on Device in Access Point Mode

I have a Raspberry Pi with a wifi dongle that is configured for Access Point mode (wifi hotspot). When a user is connected, I want to redirect any url they enter to a specified IP (the devices setup/configuration page). I'm looking for behavior…
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Internet connection lost after installing dnsmasq

I'm currently trying to set up an access point on my raspberry pi, but as soon as I install 'dnsmasq', the internet connection is lost ('unknown host' when trying to ping any server). What causes this and how do I connect it to the internet…
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Wifi and wifi hotspot at once

I have wifi adapter TP-Link TL-WN722N I want to use it to access internet and to share wifi access point at once. I did it on windows 8: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="APname" key="mykey" keyUsage=persistent wlan start…
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Cannot get IP address from WiFi access point (hostapd) with DHCP (dnsmasq) bridged with two ethernet adapters (bridge-utils)

My Android phone is trying to get DHCP address through WiFi connection, but fails. Obviously, I might have messed up something in my settings because I couldn't find a complete guide which would let me do everything in one go, thus I had to combine…
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Find hostapd's access point SSID

I have a Linux machine operating as an access point using hostapd and dnsmasq. The AP is working fine (the device is wlan0), but I am having difficulty finding the SSID of the AP for monitoring purposes. I am really using the nl80211 Netlink…
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hostapd, ath5k, nl80211 - how to get it working?

I have this network adapter in an Asus notebook running Manjaro Linux (based on Arch), everything up to date (Kernel: 3.10.11): > lspci -k | grep -A 3 -i "network" lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12 07:00.0 Ethernet controller:…
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Hostapd on a Raspberry Pi 3 with external WiFi card

I am trying to set an AP on a Raspberry Pi 3 using an external USB WiFi card and hostapd and dsnmasq. I have managed to achieve it using the internal WiFi card but when I try to switch to my external one I got the following error: $ sudo…
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How do I create a persistant (ad hoc) access point?

I was able to create an adhoc access point on my debian (raspberry pi) but when searching for wifi it shows the access point as a different symbol (ad hoc) and when I disconnect from it the access point shuts down. How do I prevent it from shutting…
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How to simulate WiFi going out of range by turning on/off Access Point on my Linux device?

I'm not running hostapd and can't install it. I'm trying to turn off a wireless access point from my device such that any third party devices that are currently connected to it drop the connection. I've tried ifconfig wlan1 down which prevents data…
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