If so, which one s specifically? The driver iwlwifi for intel just supports the following three interface modes: For anyone else who is getting the “wireless is disabled by hardware switch -a” message under wireless you’ll see it by clicking on the icon – and it’s “hard block”, that may work in any model that is working for me in netgear “wireless USB adapter”, haven’t checked the others, but it may work. I also went through the hard way and got the direct install through ndiswrapper bcmwl6. You are commenting using your Twitter account. There are also some techniques to force the wireless device to only connect to a specific router by setting the BSSID to the MAC Address of the router you wish to connect to. Ubuntu gnome-nettool Edit question Assignee:
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Wifi Hotspot: Access Point Mode Is Not Supported By This Device | UbuntuHandbook
Dear jim i am able to run ap mode in my computer but not able run the new drive on every start up. Please tell me what should i do…. The network is created and I detect it on my other PC and on my phone, however I cannot connect to the network. If corporwtion connection drops every so often some users have suggested to set IPv6 to Ignore.
Wifi Hotspot: Access Point Mode Is Not Supported By This Device
Introduction and Background This answer is based on an extensive research done by various Ubuntu users that worked together in almost all issues related to Broadcom. Once all of the required information is present, if the version of the driver you are using is the latest version available from the Ubuntu repositories, then one would want to e-mail the bdev mailing list following this procedure.
With the STA driver I can search the network, but the connection never finishes.
Also the power consumption is lower. Now using the PCI. Uninstall the bcmwl-kernel-source clrporation by issuing the following command on a terminal: Linux Firmware Update On other cases looking for and installing the latest Linux Firmware would solve the issue.
If it doesn’t, please file a report as per the procedure above.
The reason for the upgrade? Stymieceptive January 28, at 5: When that happens, first check if your card is indeed supported by the STA driver, and to do that, open a terminal window ctrl-alt-t and run. Just tested again with the 2 routers it was failing to connect. You can try to use Broadcoms hybrid driver with patch. Ji m November 11, at For installation instructions, please see here. This is a case scenario that also repeats in other cases, so a proper evaluation of the network equipment would help a lot.
It is maintained upstream here. Pankaj March 14, at 8: Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. Broadcom Corporation BCM New USB device strings: Page History Login to edit. It is working now!
networking – Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers – Ask Ubuntu
This will install all packages in that folder. Common problems that will be solved Apart from drivers not installing are:. Back to top Switching between drivers If you card is supported by more than one driver then use the modprobe command to test the drivers.
After you install it, verify the following. As a convenience, Ubuntu offers two versions of this driver: ID does not actually correspond. If you’ve installed it, purge it. I am having the same problem too. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: