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
Project Update
Hi everyone — I've been inactive on this project for a while due to other commitments. I'm now actively looking for contributors and maintainers to help keep the project alive and growing.
If you're interested in contributing — whether it's fixing bugs, improving documentation, or developing new features — please open an issue to introduce yourself.
I'm also open to adding trusted collaborators with commit access who demonstrate consistent contributions and interest.
Thanks for being part of the community and keeping Linux-WiFi-Hotspot going!
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
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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.
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If any problems with RealTeK Wifi Adapters see this
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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
Fedora based distributions
copr based repo is available for Fedora
sudo dnf copr enable zinix01/linux-wifi-hotspot
sudo dnf install 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
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
