{"id":3403,"date":"2014-06-08T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2014-06-08T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T14:15:46","slug":"share-internet-with-android-ubuntu-1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/share-internet-with-android-ubuntu-1404\/","title":{"rendered":"Share Internet Connection With Android in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This quick tip is going to show you how to create wifi hotspot in Ubuntu 14.04 so that you can share a wired internet connection with Android devices through your wireless card.<\/b><\/p>\n

I’ve written about this in another post using a third-party app called ap-hotspot<\/a>, but some readers said that not work. <\/p>\n

The pre-installed Network Manager in Ubuntu Unity does not support Access Point (AP) mode which is required for Android devices. Fortunately, KDE’s connection editor support this mode, below is how:<\/p>\n

NOTE: To do below steps, your Wireless Card must support Access Point (AP) mode.<\/b><\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Click the link below to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and click install kde-nm-connection-editor:<\/p>\n

Click Install KDE’s Network Manager<\/a><\/p>\n

2.<\/b> Once installed, press Alt+F2<\/b> and run command to launch the app:<\/p>\n

kde-nm-connection-editor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

3.<\/b> Click Add button and choose “Wireless (shared)” from the drop-down list.<\/p>\n

\"create-wireless-point\"<\/a><\/p>\n

4.<\/b> Type in a name, ssid, and select Access Point<\/b> mode. If want, set up a password under Wireless Security tab. Finally, click OK.<\/p>\n

\"create-wireless-point1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/b> Already connected Wired internet? OK, click Network Manager applet on Unity panel and then choose “Connect to Hidden Wi-Fi network”, choose the connection you created in previous step and click Connect<\/b> button.<\/p>\n

\"connect-to-wireless\"<\/a><\/p>\n

6.<\/b> Finally, your Network Manger menu should like this:<\/p>\n

\"wifi-hotspot-connected\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Turn on WLAN on your Android phone and you’ll see the access point in the list. Click connect and enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This quick tip is going to show you how to create wifi hotspot in Ubuntu 14.04 so that you can share a wired internet connection with Android devices through your wireless card. I’ve written about this in another post using a third-party app called ap-hotspot, but some readers said that not work. The pre-installed Network […]<\/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":[855,1016],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-wifi-hotspot-with-android-support"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","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=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}