I have created a wifi hotspot by using network-manager and protected it with “wpa & wpa2 personal” security, but i cant connected to it from my phone. If i create a hotspot without any security, then it works just fine. But for obvious reasons i dont want to create hostpot without any security.
What sould i do?
Cant connect to password protected wifi hotspot created by network-manager
al0o0z
#1
Negata
#2
Hi @al0o0z
Maybe this will help you:
#hostapd.conf
#
#sets the wifi interface to use
interface=wlan0
#driver to use, nl80211 works in most cases
driver=nl80211
#sets the ssid of the virtual wifi access point
ssid=myhotspot
#sets the mode of wifi, depends upon the devices you will be using. It can be a,b,g,n. Not all cards support 'n'.
hw_mode=g
#sets the channel for your wifi
channel=6
#macaddr_acl sets options for mac address filtering. 0 means "accept unless in deny list"
macaddr_acl=0
#setting ignore_broadcast_ssid to 1 will disable the broadcasting of ssid
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
#Sets authentication algorithm
#1 - only open system authentication
#2 - both open system authentication and shared key authentication
auth_algs=1
#####Sets WPA and WPA2 authentication (remove this section if you don't need encryption)#####
#wpa option sets which wpa implementation to use
#1 - wpa only
#2 - wpa2 only
#3 - both
wpa=3
#sets wpa passphrase required by the clients to authenticate themselves on the network
wpa_passphrase=KeePGuessinG
#sets wpa key management
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
#sets encryption used by WPA
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
#sets encryption used by WPA2
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
I have extracted the info from here:
Although the guide is written a few years ago, it was updated in October 2018
al0o0z
#3
Thanks for your reply.
I cant open up the link you provided for some unknown reason.
Where this setting is stored?
The connection settings in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections differs from this format
Negata
#4
Sorry @al0o0z. It would be in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf. A secure way for a hostpot is with hostapd to configure the authentication and with dnsmasq to assign ip address to the devices. This way has always worked for me
Start it with:
systemctl start hostapd
Enable it to start every boot with
systemctl enable hostapd
Or both at the same time with
systemctl enable --now hostapd
Stop & disable with
systemctl disable --now hostapd
Or just stop with
systemctl stop hostapd
Or just disable (while keeping it running) with
systemctl disable hostapd
For more on this see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_access_point
Or if you prefer to dis-intermediate systemd then you could try the ExecStart line directly:
/usr/bin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Then use pkill to, er, kill it (or send a SIGHUP to reload the configuration).
EDIT: there is also a natty command-line interface, if you are so inclined:
hostapd_cli
Check the man page for then nitty gritty.
al0o0z
#8
hotspotd is not in AUR, so then do i have to install it from git repo?
Or do you have any pkgbuild that you can share?
al0o0z
#10
Thanks.
I did see this, but i always hear people say it is bad to compile and and install from source in arch and it’s variants, so i thought you might have a PKGBUILD that i can use to install it. As i can’t make PKGBUILD.