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Unable to create wifi-hotspot as adapter does not support AP (master) mode #26

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shivamnaik39 opened this issue Oct 25, 2021 · 2 comments

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@shivamnaik39
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this was the tool i was using....
sudo lnxrouter --ap wlo1 MyAccessPoint -p MyPassPhrase
ERROR: Your adapter does not support AP (master) mode

the output of iw list also clearly states that this does not support AP mode but on windows I am able to create wifi-hotspot.
so is there any way I can achieve this on linux, do I need to install some special dependency or different version of particular dependency?

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the output of iw list also clearly states that this does not support AP mode but on windows I am able to create wifi-hotspot.

That's somewhat Linux not as good as Windows, for some wireless device models.
Unluckily that's our Linux.

Sorry but I don't have a good knowledge about wifi drivers. So leaving this open for waiting for qualified answers.
You can try asking at create_ap (must with your model name ) or Googling about it.
As I remember, some people said 1. changing driver 2. modifying Linux kernel code may do.

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shivamnaik39 commented Oct 26, 2021

the output of iw list also clearly states that this does not support AP mode but on windows I am able to create wifi-hotspot.

That's somewhat Linux not as good as Windows, for some wireless device models.
Unluckily that's our Linux.

Sorry but I don't have a good knowledge about wifi drivers. So leaving this open for waiting for qualified answers.
You can try asking at create_ap (must with your model name ) or Googling about it.
As I remember, some people said 1. changing driver 2. modifying Linux kernel code may do.

The main reason I'm asking is, on my old laptop , I was getting same error but , I did some tweaks (which i don't remember now) and it worked somehow

till now I've only tried it with Linux-lts and latest linux kernel, create_ap also gives same error. As far as drivers are considered, only rtw89 works well with this adapter
thanks to the dev, wifi and Bluetooth works very well (as good as windows).

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