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Ubuntu Laptop as a wireless hotspot on bridge mode

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Problem

I have a wired router to which my ubuntu laptop connects via ethernet. The wierless NIC of the laptop acts as a wireless hotspot on master mode. I use hostapd fo this. I have bridged eth0 and wlan0, so my wireless clients that connect to my laptop over wifi get ip from the wired router via dhcp, so…

Error Output

sudo brctl addbr br0
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0
sudo hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf &
sudo dhclient -d br0 & 
sudo ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.15 netm…

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Fix for: Ubuntu Laptop as a wireless hotspot on bridge mode

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You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces to add the correct configuration. Something like the following should do. There are options for /etc/network/interfaces to setup the wireless configuration using the prefix. The supplicant program uses the pr…

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