Wifi AP setup using Ubuntu as an example

This topic is a continuation of Setting up Wifi on Linux using Adhoc using the example of Ubuntu . I will not describe the configuration of the distribution of the Internet and dhcp. This is in the previous tipica. Like the last article, this one will be aimed at a newbie. Thanks to the purchase of the HTC Hero, I was forced to configure WIFI to the AP mode, because it turned out that Hero Adhoc does not support it initially. (By the way, the HTC Hero connected, but the Internet does not work, I hope in the new firmware this will be solved)

Unfortunately in my Dlink DWA-110 there is no AP, but there is a SoftAP. His then we set up.



To work, you need a kernel 2.6.30 or newer.

We will need to start the terminal and go into superuser mode with the sudo su command

Install the required packages:

sudo apt-get install binutils hostapd libnl1 wireless-tools libiw29

Make backup standard configuration

sudo mv /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf /etc/hostapd/hostapd-bak.conf

We learn our Wifi interface

ifconfig

There will be something like

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet

inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:77068 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:55746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:90178476 (90.1 MB) TX bytes:7529014 (7.5 MB)

Interrupt:31 Base address:0xc000



lo Link encap: (Loopback)

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:107457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:107457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:32888450 (32.8 MB) TX bytes:32888450 (32.8 MB)



wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet

inet addr:10.42.43.1 Bcast:10.42.43.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:6611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:11693 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:755281 (755.2 KB) TX bytes:13857215 (13.8 MB)



Wlan we need.

We will write our settings

sudo gedit /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

A gedit window will open enter

interface=wlan0

driver=nl80211

ssid=APnet

country_code=RU

hw_mode=g

channel=11



macaddr_acl=0



wpa=3

wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

wpa_passphrase=password

wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP

Do not forget to replace the interface, ssid and password with your own.

I have turned off encryption altogether.

sudo gedit /etc/default/hostapd

Uncomment the lines

RUN_DAEMON="yes"

DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf"

Run the demon

sudo service hostapd start

All customization is complete. Now you have your own home access point.