I have been able to create a hotspot successfully using a VivoBook E203M previously, but I now have a replacement E203M and it fails as follows:
"Network - Requesting a WiFi network address for 'MyHotspot'"
If I attempt to connect another device to MyHotspot it connects but eventually gives up and reports "Failed to obtain IP address"
Using Xubuntu 22.04.1 LTS now, I think I was using Xubuntu 20.04 previously on the other VivoBook
Any suggestions very welcome
paul@VivoBook:~$ ifconfig wlo1
wlo1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>mtu 1500
inet 10.42.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.42.0.255
inet6 2a02:810b:169f:edde::1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fe80::fdb7:e1c6:aa71:fd55 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 84:c5:a6:76:c5:37 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 155056 bytes 208321248 (208.3 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 4 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 61828 bytes 9059940 (9.0 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
I am not using hostapd, just the GUI to 'Create new wifi network' I have added the ifconfig results to the original question as the text was too long to add as a comment
MyHotspot settings thumbsnap.com/i/T6452yvs.gif
I have also tried using the command line to create a hotspot
nmcli device wifi hotspot ifname wlo1 ssid MyHotspot2 password "PASSWORD"
This has the same effect, the status is shown as
"Network - Requesting a WiFi network address for 'MyHotspot'"
I have now tried on a different LAN, and the same "Network - Requesting a WiFi network address for 'MyHotspot'" occurs
hostapd
anddhcpd
services? Does thedhcpd
run properly? If so please extend your question with the configuration files of these services and the output ofifconfig <wlaninterface>
– dummyuser Sep 15 '22 at 15:45