can't activate wifi hotspot (access point)

[peter12]

Hello, I am trying to make simple AP on my orange pi zero.

sudo nmcli c add type wifi ifname '*' con-name Hotspot autoconnect no ssid Hotspotssid
sudo nmcli connection modify Hotspot 802-11-wireless.mode ap 802-11-wireless.band bg ipv4.method shared
sudo nmcli connection modify Hotspot wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk
sudo nmcli connection modify Hotspot wifi-sec.psk "lepassword"
sudo nmcli connection up Hotspot

But after "sudo nmcli connection up Hotspot" I am getting "Error: Connection activation failed.". 

Any idea please?

 

 

P.S. Connection to internal home wifi network works ok.

[peter12]

Somehow it started working - when I installed dnsmasq and set listen address do 127.0.0.1 but when I want activate AP, I must stop dnsmasq first.

[tkaiser]

when I installed dnsmasq and set listen address do 127.0.0.1 but when I want activate AP, I must stop dnsmasq first.

 

It seems you installed the wrong dnsmasq package. Why not simply following Armbian's documentation how to setup an AP: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#how-to-change-network-configuration

[peter12]

It seems you installed the wrong dnsmasq package. Why not simply following Armbian's documentation how to setup an AP: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Fine-Tuning/#how-to-change-network-configuration

 

thanks for the link. I will check it.