Hot answers tagged wireless-access-point
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Click on your NetworkManager icon in the panel, and choose "Create Wireless network..." You should be able to set this up as a "System" (as opposed to "User") connection.
You say that this is on a server, so perhaps you're accessing the server through SSH only. In that case, you can try some remote X connection; or try to configure NetworkManager through ...
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WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles. It
enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for
your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will
automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to
it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the
profile ...
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One thing you can do is block the protocols on your firewall. The primary protocol is SMB which uses a number of ports: 135, 137, 139, and 445. Mac computers may pick you up using avahi which runs on port 5353.
If you don't have any Samba component installed you don't need to block the SMB ports. These are the tools which handle the SMB protocol, and ...
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If I understand you correctly, you can just delete the connection from network manager by going to the network manager -->edit-->wireless then highlight the connection and click delete.
There is also a package in the repos called nmcli that is a command line interface for network manager, but I haven't tried it.
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Most trouble occurs because of the Broadcom drivers in HP Laptops at least. If you have a broadcom network controller Check if your card is compatible with b43(link 1). If it is, awesome, keep reading. The default Broadcom sta driver (wl) will not support access point mode. So install b43 taking precautionary measure to be online by any means necessary. Turn ...
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You can very easily create an ad-hoc WiFi network using NetworkManager, so if the other system you want to connect to it supports that, it's most likely the easiest solution:
Click the NetworkManager icon in the menu, and look for the equivalent of Create New Wireless Network...;
Choose New... from the drop-down list (if there is one) and enter the ...
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So, want to create an access point using Ubuntu. In windows you can use connectify to do that and it works perfectly well but with Ubuntu you may have certain problems, depending on whether your wifi-card supports access point mode (master mode) or not. Now, even if your wifi-card supports access point mode, the next problem is whether the driver of your ...
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Click on the networking icon in the top right hand corner,and choose the Create New Wireless Network option. Enter a name for your network, choose the security you require and set up a security key (if security is enabled). Hit Create and your wireless network will be create and begin broadcasting.
This process depends on your card supporting the ad-hoc ...
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There is one more tool In Ubuntu software Centre named as Kismet.
Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. It is capable of
sniffing using almost any supported wireless card using the Airo,
HostAP, Wlan-NG, and Orinoco (with a kernel patch) drivers.
Can make use of sox and festival to play audio alarms for network
events and speak out ...
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You can use WDS which is supported by hostapd. But the speeds are not good. So you can try the solution that I am working on:
Verify if your wireless driver has mac80211 support here
Install hostapd from apt apt-get install hostapd. Untill recently the apt binaries did not have support for mac80211. So for compiling it you can refer this
I did not get the ...
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It appears that the current driver for the Intel 4965 Wireless card does not support Master (AP) mode,
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585
However, it appears there is work on this. It is an issue of the Linux kernel (where the driver is now developed) to get support for AP Mode.
As a workaround for now you could get an inexpensive ...
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I just had a review of the ath9k_htc deb installer you've pointed to, it's not a supported driver. Worse the installer is all over the place with debian errors, inconsistencies and a couple of security issues. It worries me that users and being recommended to install this package at all.
Check what kernel driver is currently loaded by using lsmod, if you ...
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Like user10699 said, "ath9k_htc" is not a valid driver option for hostapd.conf. You want to use "nl80211" instead. The driver option for hostapd is more about how to communicate with the kernel module, versus what the underlying driver actually is.
A couple other things to check:
Make sure you're running kernel/compat wireless 3.0 or greater. AP mode for ...
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No, you need two networks for this. Wi-Fi is EITHER in AP or Ad-Hoc modes not both.
If your neighbour is allowing you to connect to his Wi-Fi, just connect all of the PC's to it. If they don't know what you are doing, I strongly suggest that you don't do it! It may well be illegal depending on what country you are in.
When bridging, you need two ...
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Generally, it is not possible to do this unless you have two wireless cards. For example, you could get a USB receiver for your wifi and then use the built-in WiFi card to create an ad hoc network.
I am not aware of any wireless cards that allow you to create an ad hoc network while connected to another network.
Another option would be to go with a ...
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After having a good look around for some info on this problem it looks like a problem with the version of hostapd in the Ubuntu currently 0.6.1
I refer to this mailing list which confirms the bug and provides a solution
ath9k+hostapd = "Could not set DTIM period for kernel driver
The solution proposed is not surprising upgrade to 0.7.3 currently as ...
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Unfortunately you can't make pppoe connections over wifi using the network manager. They have logged this as a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/613679
The work around to make pppoe connections over wifi is shown here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10595616&postcount=7
Good luck
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If you want your wireless card change to the nl80211 driver that hostapd supports you need to use a different driver for your wifi-card. As you mentioned driver in use is brcm80211, it does not support nl80211. You need to use brcmsmac driver for your card which comes installed with ubuntu 11.04,11.10.
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For the more modern wireless cards and drivers I would recommend you install the 2.6.38 kernel which is now available from the standard Lucid repositories - it is now supported by Canonical.
To install:
sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-backport-natty linux-headers-generic-lts-backport-natty
If you are using any proprietary graphics drivers, ...
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Setup a new interface with the settings they suggest:
(right-click) on Network icon (up/down arrows)
select Edit Connections
click on 'Add' for wired
enter the name for this new connection
select 'IPv4 settings'
method: 'Manual'
Addresses: 'Add'
fill in the numbers (per image below)
click 'Save'
This should automatically connect, and hopefully assign ...
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Nmap is indicating that 192.168.1.123 is up, but it did not find any open ports from the common ports list that it uses.
First test you can Ping the IP address of the AP from both computers.
Then you can use Nmap to see if the port on the AP is open (nmap -p 8080 192.168.1.123), change 8080 to whatever port you use when accessing from your XP machine.
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Install samba
sudo apt-get install samba
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
sudo apt-get install python-glade2
sudo apt-get install system-config-samba
do a google search on ubuntu to windows share + samba
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You sould look at samba sharing for Ubuntu. It's recognized by Windows.
On the windows side, you've just to share a folder, Ubuntu can access to it. type this in file explorer of ubuntu (Nautilus) (To type this, hit CTRL+L) :
smb://HostIP/SharePath and it'll show the content of the share.
You'll have to install samba : sudo apt-get install samba to share.
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All you have to do is enable log reception via UDP.
In a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) run sudo gedit /etc/rsyslog.conf, find the following lines:
# provides UDP syslog reception
#$ModLoad imudp
#$UDPServerRun 514
and uncomment (remove the leading #) the last 2 lines, so they look like this:
# provides UDP syslog reception
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514
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