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I am trying to use my laptop as a hotspot. I do not have a LAN cable however, but only a USB Wi-Fi card (Netgear A6150).

I am trying to Turn-off the built-in Wi-Fi, get internet from the USB card only, and then share the connection via Hotspot from the built-in card.

I followed the discussion in How to disable built-in Wi-Fi and use only USB Wi-Fi card?. I can disable my built-in card via editing /etc/network/interfaces and then doing sudo service network-manager restart. But then, problem is, my built-in Wi-Fi becomes completely unusable. Or at least I do not know if/how to do anything with it.

So, again question is, how can I use my built-in Wi-Fi card as a hotspot, while getting connection from the USB. As a small note, previously I was using LAN cable and I was able to turn on hotspot from my laptop, so turning it on, should be possible.

NiRvanA
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  • If you want to share from the internal card, why would you turn it off? This seems illogical … – matigo Jan 15 '22 at 10:26
  • If both are enabled, I cannot turn on the wifi-hotspot, so I tried by turning the connection off. – NiRvanA Jan 15 '22 at 10:28
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    See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1327718/how-to-create-a-hotspot-in-ubuntu-20-10-using-the-bcm43142/1327724#1327724 – Jeremy31 Jan 15 '22 at 11:26

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