On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 07:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 04:28 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > > At the moment, neither nm-applet or the connection editor support
> > > setting real AP mode from the GUI; that's work-in-progress because it
> > > requires some rather extensive changes to the way that the editor
> > > validates its UI so that you don't end up with incompatible options.
> > > 
> > > here's a sample "keyfile" connection
> > > for /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections; you can start it with "nmcli
> > > con up id Hotspot":
> > > 
> > > [connection]
> > > id=Hotspot
> > > uuid=3e13073d-6d7a-440d-ab2b-4f42c9fdacaf
> > > type=802-11-wireless
> > > autoconnect=false
> > > 
> > > [802-11-wireless]
> > > ssid=my Hotspot
> > > mode=ap
> > > security=802-11-wireless-security
> > > 
> > > [802-11-wireless-security]
> > > key-mgmt=wpa-psk
> > > psk=really secure password
> > > 
> > > [ipv4]
> > > method=shared
> > > 
> > > [ipv6]
> > > method=auto
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > Thanks, but it not really works.
> 
> Ok, then how does it not really work, and can you grab some logs from
> wherever syslog dumps information on your distro, which is
> usually /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log or /var/log/syslog
> or /var/log/NetworkManager.log (depending on your distro)?

Oh, you also need your wpa_supplicant built with the CONFIG_AP=y option.

Dan

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