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"Starting Wireless Hotspot..." but nothing happens

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I was trying to create an WiFi hotspot for my android device. I used ap-hotspot to do so.

I configured the ap-hotspot using

sudo ap-hotspot configure

Then I started ap-hotspot using

sudo ap-hotspot start

Then it shows this

Starting Wireless Hotspot...

And then nothing happens, no further message is displayed, hotspot is not created.

What is Wrong? How to fix it?

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answered 2 Years ago atereress · Accepted Answer

ap-hotspot uses hostapd to create wireless network

I had problems creating hotspot using hostapd in Ubuntu 14.04 mainly because new version of hostapd in 14.04 default repository is buggy.

You can solve this problem by downgrading hostapd in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to a previous version

Uninstall buggy hostapd using apt-get:

sudo apt-get remove hostapd

Then install non-buggy version of hostapd:

64 - bit:

cd /tmp

wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb

sudo apt-mark hold hostapd

32 - bit:

cd /tmp

wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb

sudo apt-mark hold hostapd

"sudo apt-mark hold hostapd" will prevent hostapd to upgrade to the buggy version.

Then try running ap-hotspot again, I think it should work. It worked for me like a charm.