Re: Hotspot script not working
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 10:33 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> I suspect this is coming from line 253 (ifconfig "mon.$INTERFACE_WLAN"
> down). I believe that the "." has a special meaning in interface names
> inasmuch as it indicates a VLAN (virtual LAN) device. So "mon.wlan0"
> would be the VLAN "wlan0" running over physical interface "mon". Now, as
> VLAN IDs can only be numeric and I don't think you've got a "mon"
> interface, that's why it's failing.
>
> I *also* can't find any other mention of "mon." in that file. It's
> possible one of the commands it calls creates such an interface (I'm not
> familiar with hostapd or dnsmasq), so check how they work first. But you
> might get away with just commenting out line 253 :)
I commented out the line, the error won't come, but still the hotspot is
not detected on my mobile!
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Anubhav Yadav,
> > Computer Engineering Final Year Student,
> > Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
> > Pune.
> >
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Regards,
Anubhav Yadav,
Computer Engineering Final Year Student,
Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
Pune.
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