Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-28 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
It supports AP mode, as I have used the stuff when I worked on Windows with Connectify. Possibly, this is a driver issue, as "wl" driver may not be supporting AP mode. However, I tried to download drivers from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11 for this device, "43142", but received errors in

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 28 October 2015 14:53:11 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > but > received errors in installing them but received errors. And the error messages were? Lisi

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-28 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
/home/himanshu/Downloads/broadcom43142/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function ‘wl_dump_ver’: /home/himanshu/Downloads/broadcom43142/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:2049:3: error: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] __DATE__, __TIME__, EPI_VERSION_STR);

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 13:17 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > What card is it? Intel Centrino 2230. > With my Intel 7260 (which works as an AP if I use hostapd directly), > n-m only wants to create an ad-hoc network. > Does it present you with the option to create an AP mode network? There's not

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-27 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/23/2015 08:56 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Got it! My wireless driver is "wl", and "iw list" shows that it doesn't supports "ap" mode. Also, I have browsed Linux_Drivers_page and Wikipedia_article

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-27 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/24/2015 01:26 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, and it did ad-hoc even though my card supports AP mode. Can you check in iwconfig to confirm it's actually an AP? iwconfig does

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-10-24 at 09:26 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Also, I didn't mention that my hardware has bluetooth and wireless > combined, and bluetooth doesn't work. > It would be great if anyone could suggest the proper drivers. Hi, Probably a better idea to start a new thread for the

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-24 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
So what do I do now? Googling doesn't seem to help with that! -- Regards Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, > and it did ad-hoc even though my card supports AP mode. > Can you check in iwconfig to confirm it's actually an AP? iwconfig does say master mode. -- Cheers, Sven

Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. The hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing that the hotspot which the GNOME network manager starts is an ad-hoc network which Android cannot identify. So, I began searching for solution for creating

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Got it! My wireless driver is "wl", and "iw list" shows that it doesn't supports "ap" mode. Also, I have browsed Linux_Drivers_page and Wikipedia_article about the same, and

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/23/2015 06:43 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. The hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing that the hotspot which the GNOME network manager starts is an ad-hoc network which Android cannot

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 19:13 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. > The > hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing > that the > hotspot which the GNOME network manager starts is an ad-hoc network > which >

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/23/2015 01:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 19:13 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. The hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing that the hotspot which the GNOME network manager

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 October 2015 22:38:56 Matt Ventura wrote: > On 10/23/2015 01:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > I think NM only uses ad-hoc if your network driver doesn't support > > anything else. > > I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, > and it did ad-hoc even though my