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Monday, February 25, 2013

Easily Turn Your Ubuntu into a Virtual Router | Zhangyou's Blog

Easily Turn Your Ubuntu into a Virtual Router | Zhangyou's Blog:


Do you have a PSP or a Blackberry that supports wifi connection but without an ad-hoc wireless network capacity? I own these two devices and have been struggling to get their wireless work with my laptop’s internet connection. With the default network-manager of nm-applet, you can only create an ad-hoc wireless network share, which cannot be found by these devices. After some Google work, I finally found a solution, that is, hostapd

In Ubuntu 10.04, it seems extremely easy to have this hostapd work. First, of course, you need to install it. It is already in the official repositories. Just run this in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install hostapd
Then, open a text editor program, for example gedit. Copy the following into it.

interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=
channel=1
hw_mode=g
auth_algs=1
wpa=3
wpa_passphrase=
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP


Please don’t forget to fill in the name of your network after “ssid=”, as well as the password after “wpa_passphrase=”.

After all these, save the file as hostapd.conf in your home folder.

Now, in your terminal:

sudo hostapd hostapd.conf

Turn the wifi connection on in your devices and enjoy the fast network share!

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