You will need a wireless device which supports AP mode (Access Point (AP) infrastructure mode), you can check if your current device supports it using the `iw list` command:
# iw list > ... > Supported interface modes: > * IBSS > * managed > * AP > * AP/VLAN > * monitor > * mesh point > ... If your device have support for AP mode you can use hostapd and create an Access Point for your other machines to use. http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes#AccessPoint_.28AP.29_infrastructure_mode On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to set up a laptop to act as a mifi type router. The reason is that > I already have it, and it has a 6 hour battery. > > What I want to do is normally use the Wifi as a connection to my home > network, which already has routers, DSL lines, DHCP servers, etc. When the > power is out, and they are all down, I want to start a network on the > laptop and forward the internet connection from a USB cellular modem to > various users here. > > Sort of using a cell phone with wifi tethering, but instead using a laptop. > > I was able to do it easily with Windows. Microsoft added it to Windows 7 > and someone wrote a GUI for it. > > I would prefer to have the laptop running Linux. > > An Ad Hoc network does not work, my Android devices do not see them. > > I am running Zorin 7, which is an Ubuntu derivative. > > Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ > Jerusalem Israel. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- *Rabin*
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