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Questions tagged [wifi-hotspot]

Tag for Wi-Fi access point related questions.

Wi-Fi hotspot is a part of infrastructure providing network access to its clients using the RF (Radio Frequency) interface.

Related tags

  • Wireless Local Area Network.
  • Many general Wi-Fi links are listed at the tag info wiki page.

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How use a captive portal when in text mode?

I've seen a few other questions where they show you how to connect to a network using bash, but I haven't seen anything where you connect to a captive portal network from the command line using Linux. Is there a way to do login in a captive portal…
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Share WIFI creating hotspot on Linux Mint

I'm not able to create a hotspot in order to share my wifi connection. I use Linux Mint and I want connect my phone to WIFI through my laptop hotspot.
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nmcli connection activation failed

I was able to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on my Debian 8 install using the network tab under Gnome settings. I was trying to do the same using nmcli but when I do $ nmcli con up id Hotspot it always shows Error: Connection activation failed. I'm…
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How to automatically turn on hotspot?

Gnome desktop on Debian Jessie provides easy interface to use WiFi on the laptop and turn it into a hotspot. Is there a way to make it do automatically at startup or can I create a "shortcut" for that?
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Hotspot network creation took too long and failed activation

I'm planning to host a hotspot on my laptop with NetworkManager on Arch Linux. It was not difficult to create a hotspot configuration. However, when I was attempting to activate the created hotspot connection, an error occurred. Error: Connection…
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Set hotspot IP address

I am trying to setup a WiFi hotspot on Ubuntu 16.04. Everything is working, and clients are able to connect to the hotspot. How do I change the IP address that my hotspot is assigned? Right now, I am assigned 10.42.0.1 but say I want 192.168.0.1…
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How to generate a hotspot that does not requires password?

Is there a way to create a hotspot that doesn't have a password? The "hotspot command" of nmcli : wifi hotspot [ifname ifname] [con-name name] [ssid SSID] [band {a | bg}] [channel channel] [password password] does not allow to have a empty…
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hostapd on Debian Linux opens WLAN Hotspot, but I can't connect to it

I have a Debian Wheezy machine with hostapd running. I want it to make a WPA2-PSK secured WLAN Hotspot. I can see the Hotspot from my Android phone, but every time I try to connect to it, it shows "Getting IP-Address" for a very long time, and then…
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Arch Linux - NetworkManager unable to setup hotspot

I have network-manager and nm-applet installed on arch linux. I'm using Gnome desktop. When I try to set-up hotspot using GUI I get an error stating "Activation of network failed". This is what I have in my…
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Create Wifi Hotspot for sharing SOCKS Proxy on Ubuntu Server

I'm using Ubuntu Server and I have a SOCKS Proxy server on my client which is created with ssh -D command. I want to create a Wifi Hotspot on this computer which passes the traffic through this SOCKS Proxy. I'm connected to Internet through…
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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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Wifi stops working "randomly" and only restarting the computer helps

Often, but for no apparent reason, I cannot connect to the internet through the hotspot on my phone. The connection to the phone's network looks fine in the applet, but no pages will load and the phone now says no devices are connected.…
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SSH connections frequently disconnected when using a mobile hotspot for internet access

My ssh sessions are frequently disconnected when I use a provider that offers internet service via cellphone towers. They seem to "freeze" and stop responding to anything I've typed, but sometimes don't give an actual disconnect message until…
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Raspberry pi (running Debian) Access Point - Another Pi Crashes It

I have a Pi3b+ hooked up to my router running hostapd, dnsmasq and openvpn running an airvpn config, it is solid as a rock. It has a static IP on wlan0 192.168.4.1 and serves a local IP range, everything I connect to it works perfectly, with either…
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How do I set up a hotspot 802.11n with nmcli?

Almost everything is in the title ... I want to set up a Wi-Fi hotspot using only nmcli (no hostapd etc...) I'm doing this to create the hotspot (a small bash script): #!/bin/sh VAR_HOTSPOT="TEST" nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlan0 con-name…
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