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A Hotspot is a device that offers internet connection in an area. Use this tag if you have trouble creating or using hotspots in Ubuntu.

A Hotspot is a device that offers an internet connection in an area. The Hotspot device can be a phone, a computer, or a server. Hotspots uses Wifi Technology.

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Create a wifi hotspot using my desktop

My desktop has a fast wired connection and I would like to set up a sort of "wifi hotspot" that allows mobile devices to connect to my pc and share this fast connection. How would I go about doing this?
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How to create Wi-Fi hotspot in Ubuntu 12.04?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I have an Ethernet internet connection. I have connected this cable with my PC directly without using any wifi router. So I want to use my PC as wifi hotspot. Can you tell me how to create Hotspot in ubuntu 12.04?
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How can I create a Wifi Hotspot like in Connectify?

Possible Duplicate: How to share a wired internet connection via Wifi? When I had Windows 7 I used Connectify (http://www.connectify.me) to create a Wifi Hotspot. Now I have a wireless connection on my netbook to browse the web and I want to…
user87707
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Created Hotspot not found using other devices

I have Ubuntu 12.10 on my desktop machine and have a wireless capability on it using D-Link DWA-121 . The Desktop machine have Ethernet connection. When creating a wireless hotspot by doing the following: Open All Settings --> Network --> Wireless…
Khaled Hafez
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wirless hotspot in ubuntu 14.04

hi friends am using ubuntu 14.04 and am tired of searching software to make my laptop a hotspot i tried installing ap-hotspot but when i type sudo ap-hotspot start ,it freezes and when i type sudo ap-hotspot stop ,it displays not in active .so…
user135738
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How to reset hotspot key?

I am new to Ubuntu. I wanted to create a wifi hotspot from my wired connected laptop. I followed these instructions http://www.howtogeek.com/116409/how-to-turn-your-ubuntu-laptop-into-a-wireless-access-point/ which worked quite well. Ubuntu…
Roberto F
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cant connect to ubuntu hotspot 22.10 through the QR code from my android 12 or iphone

I am trying to connect my phone to the ubuntu hotspot , but it keeps saying in the phone after reading the QRcode, that is not connection and I should check it. After that the hotspot in ubuntu close and desactivate it. I have try different…
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unable to connect from phone to unbuntu hotspot

I have set up a hotspot in ubuntu(running 22.04) using nm-connector-editor, but I cant connect to this hotspot from any android devices while connecting a windows laptop to the same ubuntu hotspot works.
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Ubuntu 19.04 Hotspot is not visible to android phones

I created a wifi hotspot on my ubuntu Laptop, but when I search for it on my android phone it's not visible. Any suggestions?
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How to create wifi hotspot in Ubuntu 15.04?

I've tried so many things but nothing helped out
Harsha Nalluru
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Cannot Create Hotspot on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

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…
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How to log hotspot login activity

I like many am having hotspot login related problems (where I can login using my Android phone but not with Ubuntu) but unlike anything that I've found, I just want to log the related messages. I've checked /var/log and I don't see the messages. At…
J.F. Caba
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Ubuntu 18.04 Hotspot doesn't work

Recently I needed to use Hotspot, unlike previous versions the process here is very automatic which is very unpleasant in some sense because you can't set your own password or edit other Wi-Fi settings. The first day the Hotspot worked relatively…
Gabriel Cojocaru
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