I am not an advanced user of ubuntu and I am using Ubuntu 14.04 alongside with Windows 8. When I started ap-hotspot in terminal it hangs at "starting wireless hotspot...." . But I had no problems previously on Ubuntu 13.10. Please suggest any work around.
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post the output of `rfkill list` – Avinash Raj May 22 '14 at 08:05
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0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no – Maddyrdm May 22 '14 at 08:13
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restart your pc and then try again. – Avinash Raj May 22 '14 at 08:14
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No improvement, the same output... – Maddyrdm May 22 '14 at 08:20
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possible duplicate of ["Starting Wireless Hotspot..." but nothing happens](http://askubuntu.com/questions/453877/starting-wireless-hotspot-but-nothing-happens) – rajan Sep 19 '14 at 05:36
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Try to use this tutorial.
My guess is: you need to downgrade hostapd. It's told how to do it in that tutorial. However, I'll post the code here just in case.
Fot 64-bit:
cd /tmp
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb
sudo apt-mark hold hostapd
For 32-bit:
cd /tmp
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i hostapd*.deb
sudo apt-mark hold hostapd
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Use http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wpa/hostapd_1.0-3ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb` as the package has been removed/moved from the archive.ubuntu.com. So it'll give Not Found error. This link should work.
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