Bug 537739
| Summary: | Feature Request: Sharing networks wirelessly | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Fedora Documentation | Reporter: | Joshua Wulf <jwulf> | ||||
| Component: | wireless-guide | Assignee: | Stephen Wadeley <swadeley> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Pete Travis <me> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | devel | CC: | me, swadeley | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2015-04-13 07:37:11 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Joshua Wulf
2009-11-16 05:29:12 UTC
Now this is a good idea. I've done it both ways in Network Manager (wireless to wired and wired to wireless) and it's pretty easy. Let me know if you'd like some help with writing it up. I feel that I may be slowing down this bug. I can't get an Ad Hoc wireless network setup, anymore! As soon as I get that squared away I'll be happy to write up the procedure. Maybe I can work on that over the upcoming holidays. Removing myself for these bug components as I'm either no longer involved in that aspect of the project, or no longer care to watch this particular bug. Sorry if you are caught in a maelstrom of bug changes as a result! Created attachment 668519 [details]
Proposed New Text for a "Establishing a Wireless Hotspot" section.
Feedback please.
Will change: iw list | grep -a10 "Supported interface modes" to: iw list | grep -A10 "Supported interface modes" Note: You can seemingly enable the Hotspot feature and it will broadcast an SSID but it does not actually work if the hardware does not support AP mode. Hence the need to check first. Once this is improved the instructions can be amended. For the moment, asking GUI users to check first using CLI seems best. There's no "configure" option in the applet that creates the hotspot any longer; users must manually launch "Network Connections" from the menu or as "nm-connection-editor" to get the GUI for editing connections. Otherwise, it looks good. Hello I tested this again in Fedora 21. I could create a hotspot but I could not change the SSID, which defaults to the host name "localhost.localdomain". I changed the host name but the SSID would not change. The security is now WPA, not WEP, so something has improved in the last year or so. But you cannot change it. It also did not work every time I tested it. I think this feature is of little use given these limitations, so there is nothing worth documenting at the moment. Note: The Wireless Guide is now deprecated in favour of the Networking Guide. We can open this again one day and set it to the Networking Guide component if someone thinks it is worthwhile, but closing it for now. |