a) Configuring Hotspot
Navigate to Application Menu > Preferences > Advanced Network Configuration or right click on desktop panel\’s network icon and go to Edit Connections. Click on Add a new connection icon (+) and the next dialog box will ask you for your desired connection type. Select Wi-Fi option under Hardware group and then proceed with Create button. Set the Connection name to something, by which you will recognize the connection inside your lovely system.
Under General tab:
- Check Connect automatically with priority and set it to 1. (Assuming, we set this option, of the connection from which we will share to the hotspot, to 0.)
- Check All users may connect to this network.
- Select Metered Connection to Automatic option.
Under Wi-Fi tab:
- Set a SSID (Service Set IDentifier) by which other devices will find this hotspot.
- We set Mode to Hotspot option.
- And set Band to Automatic option.
- You must assign Device to the Wi-Fi card we want to be the hotspot. Its name may start with wlan or wlp (such as, wlan0, or wlp2s0b1).
Under Wi-Fi Security tab:
- Select Security to WPA & WPA2 Personal or WPA3 Personal.
- And then, set the password.
Under both IPv4 Settings and IPv6 Settings:
- Select Method to Shared to other computers option.
b) Activating Hotspot
Click on the desktop panel’s network icon and just click on the connection name of the hotspot. A notification should appear mentioning the successful connection.
