Linux Wifi Hotspot

What's new

• Use aa-complain instead of complain to fix the permission issue for dnsmasq
• Fix some 5Ghz band not working issue
• Compatible with iw 6.7

Thank you for all the contributions made while I was not active on this repository.

Features

• Share your wifi like in Windows - Use wifi and enable hotspot at the same time.
• Share a wifi access point from any network interface
• Create a hotspot with VPN - The hotspot has the traffic tunnelled through VPN. Useful for devices with no VPN app support like TV or gaming consoles.
• Share wifi via QR code
• MAC filter
• View connected devices
• Includes Both command line and GUI.
• Support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz (Need to be compatible with your wifi adapter). Ex: You have connected to the 5GHz network and share a connection with 2.4GHz.
• Customise wifi Channel, Change MAC address, etc.
• Hide SSID
• customize gateway IP address
• Enable IEEE 80211n, IEEE 80211ac and IEEE 80211ax modes

Command line help and documentation

Read Command line help and documentation here.

If you only need the command line without GUI run make install-cli-only as the root user.

Notes

• Sometimes there are troubles with 5Ghz bands due to some vendor restrictions. If you cannot start the hotspot while you are connected to the 5Ghz band, Unselect Auto and select 2.4Ghz in frequency selection.

• If any problems with RealTeK Wifi Adapters see this

• Unable to allocate IP: firewalld issue: Please check for potential fixes: #209 #166

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

Download the Debian package from the latest release

OR Good news! I was able to restore keys, new versions will be available via the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lakinduakash/lwh
sudo apt update
sudo apt install linux-wifi-hotspot

Arch based distributions

Linux Wifi Hotspot is available as an AUR package. You can install it manually or with your favorite AUR helper. For example, if you use yay you can do: yay -S linux-wifi-hotspot

Dependencies

General

• bash
• util-linux (for getopt)
• procps or procps-ng
• hostapd
• iproute2
• iw
• iwconfig (you only need this if 'iw' can not recognize your adapter)
• haveged (optional)

Make sure you have those dependencies by typing them in terminal. If any of dependencies fail install it using your distro's package manager

For 'NATed' or 'None' Internet sharing method

• dnsmasq
• iptables

To build from source

• make
• gcc and g++
• build-essential
• pkg-config
• gtk
• libgtk-3-dev
• libqrencode-dev (for qr code generation)
• libpng-dev (for qr code generation)

On Ubuntu or Debian install dependencies by,

sudo apt install -y libgtk-3-dev build-essential gcc g++ pkg-config make hostapd libqrencode-dev libpng-dev

On Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Rocky Linux/Oracle Linux

sudo dnf install -y gtk3-devel gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel pkg-config make hostapd qrencode-devel libpng-devel

Installation

git clone https://github.com/lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot
cd linux-wifi-hotspot

#build binaries
make

#install
sudo make install

Uninstallation

sudo make uninstall

Running

You can launch the GUI by searching for "Wifi Hotspot" in the Application Menu or using the terminal with:

wihotspot

Create VPN Hotspot

After connecting to VPN, Open wihotspot GUI. Select the virtual interface created by the VPN. In this case it is tun0

Run on Startup

The wihotspot GUI uses create_ap to create and manage access points. This service and core logic were originally created by @oblique, and are now maintained in this repository.

Start the hotspot service on startup (using your saved configuration) with:

systemctl enable create_ap

Contributing

If you found a bug or you have an idea about improving this make an issue. Even a small contribution makes the open source world more beautiful. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for more info.

Disclaimer

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License

FreeBSD

Copyright (c) 2013, oblique

Copyright (c) 2024, lakinduakash