linux system acting as access point/router?

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

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 `iw list` command:

# iw list
> ...
> Supported interface modes:
>          * IBSS
>          * managed
>          * AP
>          * AP/VLAN
>          * monitor
>          * mesh point
> ...


​If your device have support for AP mode you can use hostapd and create an
Access Point for your other machines to use.
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes#AccessPoint_.28AP.29_infrastructure_mode




On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Sort of using a cell phone with wifi tethering, but instead using a laptop.
>
> I was able to do it easily with Windows. Microsoft added it to Windows 7
> and someone wrote a GUI for it.
>
> I would prefer to have the laptop running Linux.
>
> An Ad Hoc network does not work, my Android devices do not see them.
>
> I am running Zorin 7, which is an Ubuntu derivative.
>
> Geoff.
>
> --
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
> Jerusalem Israel.
>
>
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