My Android Device Cannot Connect to Made Wifi Hotspot
First I Created a Wifi Hot Spot for Android Successfully. Its Being Detected but Cannot Connect, Its Getting Stuck at Obtaining Ip Address. Why? Please Help. 1...
first I created a wifi hot spot for android successfully. Its being detected but cannot connect, its getting stuck at obtaining ip address. why? please help.
1 Answer
Android devices (some Android phones) cannot detect Ubuntu created ad-hoc wifi. For Android phones to detect wifi install ap-hotspot. It has no GUI, it runs on the command line.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ap-hotspot
to configure
sudo ap-hotspot configureto start
sudo ap-hotspot startto stop
sudo ap-hotspot stop
If you get problem connecting with the android devices then try the below steps,
The problem may be with the recent hostapd(bugs) version package that installs with ap-hotspot.
First uninstall ap-hotspot. Download old hostapd package(bug free) you can get it from
wget
To install hostpad.deb you can use gdebi package manager or simply from terminal
sudo dpkg -i hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
After installation you need to hold the package so that it won't get updated to latest version, open your terminal
sudo apt-mark hold hostapd
Now install ap-hotspot normally.
Do not update the hostapd package.
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