Hostapd to connect laptop to Android

[kmegamind]

i am trying to set up my laptop as an access point for my Android to use WiFi, so i knew that ubuntu sets the network as Ad-Hoc which is not discoverable by android, So i tried the method explained here (http://asd-justthat.blogspot.com/2012/04/create-wifi-wireless-hotspot-in-ubuntu.html) -which i found on many other websites- but when i run hostapd.conf this error appears :




nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x8e488f8 user_data=0x8e48ea0 handler=0x807c5e0
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=6 eloop_data=0x8e4aca8 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8086770

this is how my hostapd.cof looks like :



interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=Any_SSID_name
hw_mode=g
channel=1
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=Any_password
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

and this is my wireless card info



description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 78:e4:00:73:51:f1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmsmac driverversion=3.2.0-31-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f0300000-f0303fff



What should I do to get my WiFi network running ?

[shivams08]

It's clear your laptop wireless card doesn't support AP mode. Buy a USB wireless card that supports AP mode. To identify if a wireless card supports AP or not, just look for words like "Infrastructure mode", "Soft Access Point" etc.

Usually most USB wireless cards available today support AP mode, and they are not that expensive too.