Ubuntu “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? wireless android hot-spot share improve this question edited Aug 17 '14 at 19:59 Braiam 1 asked Apr 23 '14 at 18:10 rajan 594 1 6 22

After following above steps, ap-hotspot was not working –  user308833 Jul 24 '14 at 18:19 use the instructions below as given in the answer,. then configure the ap-hotsot and start,. it should work. –  rajan Jul 25 '14 at 4:33 add a comment

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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. share improve this answer edited Apr 30 '15 at 15:05 mohitmayank 3 3 answered Apr 23 '14 at 18:29 Back.Slash 1,571 2 8 19

what is this, it fills up the terminal. bash: notify-send: command not found –  rajan Apr 23 '14 at 18:44 2   install notify-send using sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin –  Back.Slash Apr 23 '14 at 18:57 if you use the "sudo apt-get upgrade" will the hostapd upgraded? –  rajan Apr 24 '14 at 3:55 not if you have done sudo apt-mark hold hostapd –  Back.Slash Apr 24 '14 at 4:12 1   This solution not working for me. I have done everything as above. Still getting same problem. –  Durgesh Suthar Jul 20 '14 at 10:07 show 3 more comments

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Install the hostapd as mentioned above, followed by ap-hotspot, from http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/webupd8/trusty/main/base/ap-hotspot and run sudo ap-hotspot configure Give the correct inter-phase eth0 and wlan0 followed by ssid and pass-phrase. Start the hotspot by sudo ap-hotspot start share improve this answer edited Jul 31 '14 at 20:25 kraxor 3,284 2 10 26 answered Jul 31 '14 at 18:15 janardhan 11 2

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up vote 0 down vote	The file: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb Is no longer present on the ununtu.com server. How do I upgrade the hostapd? share improve this answer answered May 29 '15 at 15:18 Bob Brunius 136 1 1 8
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this is old post but i stuck in same problem and i solved my problem . this problem may be occurs with wrong version but in my case if you are using any other network manager tools and service of that manager is running then it may not work ap-hotspot service and it show Starting Wireless Hotspot... solution: stop service of previous network manager tools if you are using default network manager then do sudo service network-manager stop or if you using wicd then stop it using sudo service wicd stop then you have to start ap-hotspot sudo ap-hotspot start share improve this answer edited Aug 14 '15 at 19:50 answered Aug 14 '15 at 18:33 pl_rock 3,297 4 13 24

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