Following this tutorial you can will also get a pseudo range extender.

With the brand new Ubuntu, it is really simple setting up a hotspot and share your internet connection using wifi.

For this tutorial I'm going to use the following material

  1. My acer 5630 laptop
  2. Ubuntu 13.10 (already installed)
  3. A TP-LINK  TL-WN727N wifi usb dongle
  4. and nothing more

My laptop is connected to the internet through the wifi, and I want to share the connection with all the devices in my home. The wifi hotspot I'm using don't cover all my house, so I thought to extend the range of the wifi hotspot using a USB wifi dongle.

There are only few steps:

  • Open a terminal
  • Open the settings app, and then select the network item, you should see something like the following picture

network settings 1

  • Plug the USB dongle into a usb port, the network setting should change as follows:

 

network settings 2

  • Switch to the terminal, and issue the following command (just to see some info about your wifi dongle) 
develop@develop:~$ dmesg

[ 4726.428078] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 4726.578040] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=5370
[ 4726.578051] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 4726.578057] usb 1-3: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[ 4726.578063] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: TPlink
[ 4726.578068] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 1.0
[ 4726.696092] usb 1-3: reset high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 4726.838882] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 5390, rev 0502 detected
[ 4726.868253] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 5370 detected
[ 4726.868904] ieee80211 phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 4726.930134] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
[ 4726.930224] ieee80211 phy3: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29
[ 4727.205934] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
[ 4727.206437] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
develop@develop:~$
  • Switch again to the network settings, and select the new wireless item in the left panel

network settings 3

  • Click the Use as Hotspot button, and then click the "Turn On" button.

network settings 4
That's all, now you have only to try to connect to the hostspot using the info in the panel…

 

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