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Edward E. Edwardson

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Registered: 2011-11-01

Posts: 37

NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

I'm trying to set up my notebook as a hotspot using the NetworkManager GUI (Wifi Settings -> Use as Hotspot). I can see it from my Android phone, but when I try to connect, I just get an authentication error. Everything I can find via Google just seems to be outdated. I'm trying to set this up for some time now, without any luck so far. The confirguration NetworkManager generates looks like this:

[connection]
id=Hotspot
uuid=ff74ae4c-da04-47b2-b734-52f6fb5bcad6
type=wifi
autoconnect=false
permissions=
secondaries=

[wifi]
hidden=true
mac-address=B4:B6:76:9C:CB:B0
mac-address-blacklist=
mode=ap
seen-bssids=
ssid=hypnos

[wifi-security]
group=ccmp;
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
pairwise=ccmp;
proto=rsn;
psk=xxx

[ipv4]
dns-search=
method=shared

[ipv6]
dns-search=
method=auto

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

Was there a blog post or a video telling people to do this in the recent days? Second post with this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=209414

Edward E. Edwardson

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Registered: 2011-11-01

Posts: 37

Re: NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

So, I tried the create_ap script with the same result. Android won't connect.

Branau

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2016-02-10

Posts: 14

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Re: NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

If I'm not mistaken, that creates an ad-hoc network, and unfortunately, android devices are unable to connect to ad-hoc networks. Your best bet is to use a combo of hostapd/dnsmasq to create a network in infrastructure mode, but I haven't been able to get it to work in Arch yet. I actually just requested help on this, but haven't heard anything yet. I posted all of my scripts and configuration files in that post, maybe they'll be of some use to you. I wrote a tutorial on this on the ubuntu forums, and I was able to get it running in Ubuntu just fine. I'm sure I'm just missing something but give it a go, maybe it'll work for you

Docbroke

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From: India

Registered: 2015-06-13

Posts: 1,438

Re: NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

android can connect to create_ap network it creates ap not ad-hoc network
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162895

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Thorsten Reinbold

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 353

Re: NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

Was there a blog post or a video telling people to do this in the recent days? Second post with this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=209414

It seems that there is a problem that affects more than one person.

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,304

Re: NetworkManager: Cannot connect to "hotspot" from Android

When I first moved to my current address (18 months ago) I had a wait time for my broadband and had to do this for a couple of weeks. I bypassed Network Manager and just went directly to wpasupplicant. It may be a solution worth considering.

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