I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 as a virtual machine on my Mac. Since I am unable to get the virtual machine to have full access to my WiFi card, I bought another USB WiFi card to use.
If you are unfamiliar with Virtual machine, as far as I know, since the Ubuntu has its own card now, it shouldn't matter.
I have followed these guides with no luck:
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessAccessPoint
- http://www.danbishop.org/2011/12/11/using-hostapd-to-add-wireless-access-point-capabilities-to-an-ubuntu-server/
The problem is that the WiFi connection appears on all of the machines that I have in my house: 2 iPhones, Dell machine running Ubuntu and two Macbooks. However the connection times out on all of these machines.
Questions:
- Could this be a driver issue if that same WiFi card can connect to other WiFi points and use its internet
- Could this be DHCP related? I would think not. It should at least get a 169.X.X.X address? No?
- Any solutions for me?
sudo iwconfig
, this should list all available wireless interfaces.sudo iwconfig wlan1 mode master
& replace wlan1 with your interface.lspci | grep -i wireless
. Take the first number it prints & type:lspci -vv -s 03:00.0
replace03:00.0
with ur number. At the end of the output it wiil show something like thisKernel modules: ath9k
. This means your kaernel driver isath9k
. You can typemodinfo ath9k
.This again produces lots of information which may require for debugging.depends:
section which shows something like this :depends: ath9k_hw,mac80211,led-class,ath,cfg80211,ath9k_common
. nl80211/cfg80211 (most new drivers) are well supported by linux.