AP-Hotspot

Automatically creates an infrastructure (Access Point mode) wireless hotspot in Ubuntu that should work with Android and Windows Phone devices

Usage

ap-hotspot [argument]

    start          start wireless hotspot
    stop           stop wireless hotspot
    restart        restart wireless hotspot
    enable         enable wireless hotspot service
    disable        disable wireless hotspot service
    configure      configure hotspot
    debug          start with detailed messages

Install

On Debian and Ubuntu run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin iw dnsmasq
sudo make install

You can use the PREFIX make parameter to change the install directory

sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/bin

If you want to start AP-Hotspot at boot and you are using Debian Wheezy you may need to install a recent systemd version from the backports

sudo sh -c \
"echo 'deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main' > \
 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy-backports.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -t wheezy-backports systemd