On Wednesday, 13 February 2013 16:11:25 UTC+5:30, Vishal M wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 February 2013 15:36:24 UTC+5:30, djinn wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Vishal M <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday, 13 February 2013 15:19:15 UTC+5:30, djinn wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Vishal M <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> My laptop is powered by Ubuntu 12.04. I use Tata Photon+ (EVDO) USB >>>>> modem for accessing the Internet. I also have a tablet which can connect >>>>> to >>>>> Internet only through Wi-Fi. >>>>> >>>>> I want to share my laptop's Internet with other devices over Wi-Fi. I >>>>> did some googling before starting this thread and found a few articles, >>>>> which tell to install hostapd, and then making changes to hostapd.conf >>>>> and >>>>> some other system files. I tried but no luck. >>>>> >>>>> Can someone please tell me the simplest solution to my problem? >>>>> >>>>> There is fairly descriptive howto (https://help.ubuntu.com/** >>>> community/Internet/**ConnectionSharing<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Internet/ConnectionSharing>) >>>> >>>> for setting up what your are expecting. >>>> >>> >>> Already checked this yesterday. This is very confusing and not of much >>> help for me. >>> >> >> If this how-to is confusing, you will find buying a wifi modem with usb a >> much easier approach, since most of these routers today support using USB >> modems like Tata Photon+ >> > > There is an easier way of doing what I want - using > Firestarter. Currently I don't have my laptop with me, will try in the > evening. >
I tried various methods but nothing worked for me. Now I've come to know that my laptop has Broadcom BCM4313 WLAN card, which doesn't support master mode / access point mode. I believe this is the root cause of problem. Can anyone help now? -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
