{"id":2962,"date":"2014-02-06T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:46:46","slug":"wifi-hotspot-ubuntu-laptop-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/wifi-hotspot-ubuntu-laptop-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Wifi Hotspot in Ubuntu Laptop For Android Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wireless<\/a><\/p>\n

If you have a single wired Internet connection, you can easily setup an ad-hoc wireless network with Ubuntu and share the Internet connection among multiple devices. Unfortunately, some devices including Android & Windows Phones may not support ad-hoc wireless networks<\/b>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2024: This tutorial is outdated! It may no longer works in current Ubuntu releases!<\/b><\/p>\n

\"ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n

So this tutorial is going to show you how to turn your Ubuntu laptop into a wireless access point in another way with Android phones support.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 2: Seems that Ap-hotspot is not working good on Ubuntu 14.04, please try this post using KDE’s network manager<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Or use the default Network Manager with a little hack.<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n

To get started<\/b>, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to install ap-hotspot.<\/p>\n

Ap-hotspot<\/b> is an open-source project that automatically creates an infrastructure (Access Point mode) wireless hotspot in Ubuntu that should work with Android and Windows Phone devices<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard\/webupd8\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install ap-hotspot<\/pre>\n
Supports for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. download & install the ap-hotspot deb for saucy at this page<\/a><\/del>.<\/p>\n
For Ubuntu 14.04,<\/b> due to bug you need to downgrade hostapd<\/code> to make ap-hotspot work.<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. First uninstall the buggy hostapd<\/code> in Ubuntu 14.04 via:\n
    sudo apt-get remove hostapd<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Copy and paste the command below into terminal that matches your OS type – check out via System Setting -> Details – and hit run to download, install, and hold the old version of hostapd.While running the commands below, type in your user password in terminal when prompt.\n
    For 64-bit system:<\/p>\n
    cd \/tmp && wget http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/pool\/universe\/w\/wpa\/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb && sudo apt-mark hold hostapd<\/pre>\n
    For 32-bit system:<\/p>\n
    cd \/tmp && wget http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/pool\/universe\/w\/wpa\/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_i386.deb && sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb && sudo apt-mark hold hostapd<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Once installed, execute below command to configure your wifi hotspot:<\/p>\n
    sudo ap-hotspot configure<\/pre>\n
    It will detect the wired & wireless interfaces and ask you to confirm that if they are correct (run ifconfig<\/code> if you’re not sure). Then you’ll be asked to enter a wifi hotspot name and setup a password.<\/p>\n
    \"ap-hotspot<\/a><\/p>\n
    Finally start the wireless hotspot via:<\/p>\n
    sudo ap-hotspot start<\/pre>\n
    Now you’re able to connect to wifi hotspot via your Android phone!<\/p>\n
    \"ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n
    To stop the wireless hotspot, execute this command in Ubuntu terminal:<\/p>\n
    sudo ap-hotspot stop<\/pre>\n
    UPDATE<\/b>: Please report issues at: https:\/\/github.com\/hotice\/AP-Hotspot\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n
    Tip:<\/b> For the error “Access Point Mode is not supported by this device”, you may take a look at this page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    If you have a single wired Internet connection, you can easily setup an ad-hoc wireless network with Ubuntu and share the Internet connection among multiple devices. Unfortunately, some devices including Android & Windows Phones may not support ad-hoc wireless networks. UPDATE 2024: This tutorial is outdated! It may no longer works in current Ubuntu releases! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-wifi-hotspot-with-android-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}