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[Fwd: Re: Buster on laptop cannot find Nokia 3 hotspot...]

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Shahryar Afifi <shahryarafifi@yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 08:31 -0700, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
Eliminate the possibilities:
try to connect other phone's hot spot to your laptop.

I tried this with an ASUS tablet, an Alcatel 1 smartphone, and an unknown smartphone branded by Vodafone. The last two are Oreo, the first one is a rather old Android version, at most 6.

But they are all immediately seen by my Buster laptop, and the WI-FI connection works perfectly.

try using third party app on your phone to set up hot spot.

I tried many, but most of them are just useless shortcut. Anyway no one works. Can you suggest one?

try to connect nokia 3 to other buster ( or even windows to test)

I have not another Buster, but I have a Stretch laptop, which has no problem with my three Nokia 3 smartphone.

set up hot spot from your laptop and see if you can see it in nokia 3

I did it, and at least one of the Nokia 3 sees the SSID of the hotspot, but can't connect. The hotspot is created with WEP security, but the Nokia 3 says the connection has no security at all. This is wrong, but at least explains why the Nokia 3 can't connect to the Buster hotspot.

I even tried to create another connection on the Nokia 3, setting WEP as security and the right password, but I didn't succede. Maybe I made some mistake.

Sorry for the long delay... I had no connection for many days!

Best regards.




On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 10:42 +0200, Nimrod wrote:
Hi,

my (very old) laptop has been working like a charm until I updated
from Stretch to Buster. Among the other, the issue in the subject is
very relevant for me.

Here is what happens when I turn on wi-fi hotspot on Nokia 3
smartphone (Android up to date):

1) any smartphone or tablet in the family can connect to my Nokia 3
hotspot.

2) my laptop can connect at least to a tablet hotspot (the tablet has
a rather old Android version, I guess 6 or even less, and it cannot
be updated); also, my laptop finds a lot of wi-fi networks around
(currently I'm in a building in the small town of Anzio, Italy, but
almost every corner of the town is full of wi-fi networks)

3) my laptop cannot even see any hotspot provided by a Nokia 3
smartphone with Android up to date; we have three of them, and I
checked everyone one of them: they all can be used by the tablet in
point 2) above, and none of them are even found by my laptop.

It seems there is something wrong with my laptop and Nokia 3 when
they try to communicate. Currently I'm still using my Nokia 3 as a
modem via Bluetooth, but the connection is rather slow. When the wi-
fi hotspot was working the speed was much higher.

Some data:

- the laptop is a HP 6730s, quite slow but incredibly robust; Buster
is up to date
- all the Nokia 3 have Android 9 July update

Thanks in advance for any hint.

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Nimrod <
nimrod@virgilio.it
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