Enabling Wifi Hostpot in Android

teddy john

Hi Everyone,

I have a custom imx6 board running on android JB using wl12xx chipset. To add hotspot feature, I used ap firmware (wl1271-fw-ap.bin). As I enabled hotspot feature in UI, I was able to run hostapd successfully and connect stations with it.
Internet Connection to my board is through Ethernet. But stations connected to my AP cannot access Internet.

While I ping google, I gets struck as below.

$ ping google.com

PING google.com (74.125.236.201) 56(84) bytes of data.

Do I need to add anything to my hostapd configuration to support Ethernet?

over 10 years ago

0 Joseph Gigi over 10 years ago

TI__Guru* 85400 points

Hi,

The page: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OMAP_Wireless_Connectivity_Ethernet_WLAN_Bridge explains all the changes.
Can you please confirm if you have taken care of all the things in that page?

Regards,
Gigi Joseph.

0 teddy john over 10 years ago in reply to Joseph Gigi

Intellectual 290 points

Hi Joseph,
I am little bit confused about the procedure in the above link. Can you provide me with the procedure for static connection for both AP and Ethernet?

0 Joseph Gigi over 10 years ago in reply to teddy john

TI__Guru* 85400 points

Hi,

As I told in another post, for static IP, you don't need to run the DHCP Server.
Instead, you can manually assign the IP address via: "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up". Please note, the br0 interface should also have the same IP.

Regards,
Gigi Joseph.

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