Hostapd to connect laptop to Android
- by Kmegamind
i am trying to set up my laptop as an access point for my Android to use WiFi, so i knew that ubuntu sets the network as Ad-Hoc which is not discoverable by android, So i tried the method explained here -which i found on many other websites- but when i run hostapd.conf this error appears :
nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode nl80211 driver
initialization failed. ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4
eloop_data=0x8e488f8 user_data=0x8e48ea0 handler=0x807c5e0 ELOOP:
remaining socket: sock=6 eloop_data=0x8e4aca8 user_data=(nil)
handler=0x8086770
this is how my hostapd.conf looks like :
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=Any_SSID_name
hw_mode=g
channel=1
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=Any_password
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
and this is my wireless card info :
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 78:e4:00:73:51:f1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmsmac driverversion=3.2.0-31-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f0300000-f0303fff
