Re: b43 AP does not work

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 19:00 +0000, Nerijus Baliūnas wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw@...> writes:
> 
> > NM actually does allow you to do that by editing the hotspot connection
> > files directly.
> 
> > If you take a look into /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ you
> > should see the config file, where you can edit stuff like 'channel',
> > 'ssid', 'band', 'pairwise', 'group', 'proto', etc, stuff that's familiar
> > to wpa_supplicant config too.  See 'man nm-settings' for more details on
> > all these key/value pairs.
> 
> I edited /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Hotspot, ran systemctl
> restart NetworkManager and ssid and password were changed. Then I added
> channel=10 to the file, restarted NM, but when I enable hotspot in Gnome,
> ssid is localhost.localdomain and password is random again. I was not able
> to have my edited ssid and password values back.

You don't actually need to restart NM, you can simply run "nmcli con
reload" to get NM to notice the changes.  I don't recall how GNOME Shell
handles the Hotspot button in its UI, but you should be able to test
independently of GNOME Shell by doing:

nmcli con up <name of hotspot connection>

Dan