<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">You will need a wireless device which supports AP mode (Access Point (AP) infrastructure mode), you can check if your current device supports it using the <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">`iw</span> <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">list`</span> command:</div>
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<font face="courier new, monospace"># <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">iw</span> list <br></font><font face="courier new, monospace">...<br></font><font face="courier new, monospace">Supported interface modes:<br></font><font face="courier new, monospace"> * IBSS<br>
</font><font face="courier new, monospace"> * managed<br></font><font face="courier new, monospace"> * AP<br></font><font face="courier new, monospace"> * AP/VLAN<br></font><font face="courier new, monospace"> * monitor<br>
</font><font face="courier new, monospace"> * mesh point<br></font><font face="courier new, monospace">...</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If your device have support for AP mode you can use hostapd and create an Access Point for your other machines to use.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes#AccessPoint_.28AP.29_infrastructure_mode">http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes#AccessPoint_.28AP.29_infrastructure_mode</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I want to set up a laptop to act as a mifi type router. The reason is that I already have it, and it has a 6 hour battery.<br>
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What I want to do is normally use the Wifi as a connection to my home network, which already has routers, DSL lines, DHCP servers, etc. When the power is out, and they are all down, I want to start a network on the laptop and forward the internet connection from a USB cellular modem to various users here.<br>
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Sort of using a cell phone with wifi tethering, but instead using a laptop.<br>
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I was able to do it easily with Windows. Microsoft added it to Windows 7 and someone wrote a GUI for it.<br>
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I would prefer to have the laptop running Linux.<br>
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An Ad Hoc network does not work, my Android devices do not see them.<br>
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I am running Zorin 7, which is an Ubuntu derivative.<br>
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Geoff.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ<br>
Jerusalem Israel.<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Rabin</b></font></div>
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