On Sep 3, 2013 7:01 AM, "Anubhav Yadav" <anubhav@icoer.in> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 10:33 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
>
> > I suspect this is coming from line 253 (ifconfig "mon.$INTERFACE_WLAN"
> > down). I believe that the "." has a special meaning in interface names
> > inasmuch as it indicates a VLAN (virtual LAN) device. So "mon.wlan0"
> > would be the VLAN "wlan0" running over physical interface "mon". Now, as
> > VLAN IDs can only be numeric and I don't think you've got a "mon"
> > interface, that's why it's failing.
> >
> > I *also* can't find any other mention of "mon." in that file. It's
> > possible one of the commands it calls creates such an interface (I'm not
> > familiar with hostapd or dnsmasq), so check how they work first. But you
> > might get away with just commenting out line 253 :)
>
> I commented out the line, the error won't come, but still the hotspot is
> not detected on my mobile!
> > >
> > > Any help will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Anubhav Yadav,
> > > Computer Engineering Final Year Student,
> > > Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
> > > Pune.
> > >
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> Anubhav Yadav,
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> Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
> Pune.
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Hello
May I suggest trying to google for "using debian as an ad-hoc" wifi / hotspot / whatever you want to call it, since it may just be easier to do that rather than porting/debugging that script?
I was able to find quite a few guides, even on wiki.debian.org.
Good luck!
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