I was creating a wifi hotspot using kde-nm-connection-editor as instructed on Share Internet Connection With Android in Ubuntu 14.04 but an unexpected error occurred as a result of which I was able to create it up. The following error appeared :
(32) Access Point (AP) mode is not supported by this device.
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possible duplicate of How to setup an Access Point mode Wi-Fi Hotspot?– user68186Jan 29, 2015 at 18:48
2 Answers
As @Zeiss Ikon said, it seems that it doesn't support AP mode. Sadly this happens to me too.
You can run in a terminal iw list
and check the Supported interface modes: section to see if there is any reference to AP. If not, then you can't use the AP mode.
That error is reporting that your particular wifi hardware doesn't support operating as a hotspot. There's nothing you can do in software to correct it, you can only replace the hardware (though it would probably cost about the same to buy a cheap wifi router).
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I guess I should have said "is telling Ubuntu that it doesn't support operating as a hotsport". It's possible, in this case, that you need a different driver. Jan 29, 2015 at 19:42
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I came with the same issue. Windows works just fine, but Ubuntu seems not able to start the hotspot. Even though if I saw "AP mode" in the iw list. Why does it happen? Aug 31, 2016 at 21:52