[Solved] How to create wifi hotspot ?

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[Solved] How to create wifi hotspot ?

Post#1 by black007 » 19 Nov 2014, 15:19

I want to share my LAN connection over Wifi.
Is there something like Connectify for porteus ?
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Re: How to create wifi hotspot ?

Post#2 by francois » 19 Nov 2014, 17:24

There seems to be different methods of creating a hotspot, the nm-applet package seeming the simplest way to do it. See nm-applet instructions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ad-hoc_networking

If not look at the other possibilities using wpa_supplicant in the above link. wpa_supplicant is already stock on porteus. :)
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Re: How to create wifi hotspot ?

Post#3 by francois » 19 Nov 2014, 23:46

What environment are you using: xfce, kde ... ?

What architecture?

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Re: How to create wifi hotspot ?

Post#4 by black007 » 20 Nov 2014, 10:47

LXDE
32 bit

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 ... ot-ubuntu/

3rd method worked for me ...

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