(SOLVED)Unable to make Hotspot work
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(SOLVED)Unable to make Hotspot work
Hi, everyone. This is my first post although I have been using Mint for several months. I recently installed Mint in a Pc which has an ethernet connection. Bought a usb wifi adapter (chinese brand FAST). Through ndiswrapper I have been able to make the wifi card work but when I try to setup the hotspot (which is the reason why I bought the wifi adapter) I just can't make it work. I use the hotspot button from the net window, and in the Network manager sometimes appear and sometimes doesn't. But my devices don't detect the hotspot. Well, once, with Mint 13 Cinnamon I was able to connect, but had no internet connection. I have been trying for a couple of days, tried with hostapd and many other manuals. I also have tried with Mint 13 Maya and right now I am trying with Maya 16. The adapter works fine in Windows 7 (can activate hotspot with any device, including android cellphones). Have no idea what else to do, so that's why I am posting in the forum. Can anyone give suggestions? Could it be the adapter that simply is not supported for hotspot?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
I'm not possitive, but I think you're wireless card has to be able to support monitor mode to use it as a hotspot. I know thats not much help, but maybe its a starting point.
Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
I've had exactly the same problem and despite popping a post on the forum, I didn't receive any solutions (or answers for that matter).
I was able to overcome the situation by reinstalling Mint (14, 64 bit) and stopping Win 7 from accessing the hotspot. It seems that Win 7 does something that stuffs the Network Manager up in Mint. Mine is now working fine and Win 7 can get stuffed and I use my satellite connection for that instead and it will stay that way until I am able to obtain a fix.
Good luck
Allen
Oz
I was able to overcome the situation by reinstalling Mint (14, 64 bit) and stopping Win 7 from accessing the hotspot. It seems that Win 7 does something that stuffs the Network Manager up in Mint. Mine is now working fine and Win 7 can get stuffed and I use my satellite connection for that instead and it will stay that way until I am able to obtain a fix.
Good luck
Allen
Oz
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
Hi, thank you both for your answers.
Allen, have tried to connect from Mint in Pc to Mint 13 in netbook and didn't work.
Pettijohne, I have tried to follow this manual:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/MasterMode
I got
Allen, have tried to connect from Mint in Pc to Mint 13 in netbook and didn't work.
Pettijohne, I have tried to follow this manual:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/MasterMode
I got
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$ sudo lsusb
[sudo] password for mik:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 17ef:602d Lenovo
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17ef:602e Lenovo
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05e3:0722 Genesys Logic, Inc.
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sudo iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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[code]sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
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iw list
nl80211 not found.
Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
what is the output for "iw list"? Also which of these is the wifi stick?
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05e3:0722 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05e3:0722 Genesys Logic, Inc.
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
It is the Realtek one.
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iw list
nl80211 not found.
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
This is the usb adapter:
http://www.fastcom.com.cn/Download/detail?pd=87
http://www.fastcom.com.cn/Download/detail?pd=87
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
Have found a couple of promising options:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1344
https://code.google.com/p/realtek-8188c ... untu-1304/
The first one seems to be for the v2 of the adapter, and the second one for the v1 (older ones). It seems that mine is the second one, 0bda:8179.
Still have the same problem. The wifi works but have no way to create Access Point. Another weird thing is that the module doesn't load on startup and I have to load it manually with sudo modprobe 8188.eu.
EDIT: This is what I get with iwconfig while trying to create the hotspot.
After a few seconds it says that couldn't connect to network and there is no access point
And this is what I get with lsmod (in case another module may be causing this):
Should I try with a new fresh install of Mint 13?
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1344
https://code.google.com/p/realtek-8188c ... untu-1304/
The first one seems to be for the v2 of the adapter, and the second one for the v1 (older ones). It seems that mine is the second one, 0bda:8179.
Still have the same problem. The wifi works but have no way to create Access Point. Another weird thing is that the module doesn't load on startup and I have to load it manually with sudo modprobe 8188.eu.
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wlan0 unassociated Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz [u]Access Point: Not-Associated [/u][b][/b]
Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"mik-Le" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:11:87:C5:1A:01
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And this is what I get with lsmod (in case another module may be causing this):
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Module Size Used by
8188eu 518476 0
ndiswrapper 192871 0
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
rfcomm 38139 0
bnep 17830 2
bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep
snd_hda_codec_realtek 174055 1
binfmt_misc 17292 1
snd_hda_intel 32765 3
snd_hda_codec 109562 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80845 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi
psmouse 87140 0
joydev 17393 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 62064 15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
i915 414568 3
drm_kms_helper 45466 1 i915
drm 197692 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915
soundcore 14635 1 snd
video 19068 1 i915
snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw 13027 0
mac_hid 13077 0
mei 36570 0
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usbhid 41906 0
hid 77367 1 usbhid
r8169 56321 0
usb_storage 39646 0
Should I try with a new fresh install of Mint 13?
Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
I haven't looked into it but you might can get a cheap bluetooth card and make a hotspot with it. However, one nice thing about a wireless router is that port forwarding is usually pretty easy.
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
Yep, that was my first idea, but I work for an university and I get my internet connection through a 802.1x connection. Don't know if it would be that easy to configure
Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
[quote="colibris79"]Hi, thank you both for your answers.
Allen, have tried to connect from Mint in Pc to Mint 13 in netbook and didn't work.
No. What I was doing was from Mint 14 (64 bit) which worked initially and then to win 7 (64 bit) which worked and when I returned to Mint 14 that was when I ran into trouble. I had to reinstall Mint 14 and thereafter it has worked fine but as I said earlier, Win 7 is restricted to satellite connection for the moment.
I didn't want to go from Mint 13 (32 bit) to Win 7 (64 bit) just in case Win stuffed that one up too and left me in a difficult position.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Allen
Oz
Allen, have tried to connect from Mint in Pc to Mint 13 in netbook and didn't work.
No. What I was doing was from Mint 14 (64 bit) which worked initially and then to win 7 (64 bit) which worked and when I returned to Mint 14 that was when I ran into trouble. I had to reinstall Mint 14 and thereafter it has worked fine but as I said earlier, Win 7 is restricted to satellite connection for the moment.
I didn't want to go from Mint 13 (32 bit) to Win 7 (64 bit) just in case Win stuffed that one up too and left me in a difficult position.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Allen
Oz
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Re: Unable to make Hotspot work
WOW, after many hours trying to make it work, finally it is working. Specially thanks to lwfinger. Check here for all the process.
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/47
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/issues/47