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Old 11-28-2014
Need to configure my laptop Thinkpad - T430 as wifi hotspot

Hi All,

I have a Thinkpad - T430, which is having the wireless card as "03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205".
This one i need to configure as wifi hotspot. which i believe need to configure hostapd.conf, this kind of configuration is new to me anybody done it ?
Wireless card desc as below ..
Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
Code:
root# iw phy0 info ( command iw output, which shows it's capable of AP-Access Point )
Wiphy phy0
	max # scan SSIDs: 20
	max scan IEs length: 223 bytes
	Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
	Device supports RSN-IBSS.
	Supported Ciphers:
		* WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1)
		* WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5)
		* TKIP (00-0f-ac:2)
		* CCMP (00-0f-ac:4)
	Available Antennas: TX 0 RX 0
	Supported interface modes:
		 * IBSS
		 * managed
		 * AP
		 * AP/VLAN
		 * monitor

is there any body help me to achive this ? configure it as wifi hotspot.


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Old 11-28-2014
You probably use hostapd. here is something to get started with.
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