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Turn your Linux into a wifi hotspot for Android and Windows phones! (Ubuntu and Linux Mint)

This is one of the biggest problem linux users face i.e. to share your ethernet connection over wifi for your android or windows mobile device. Here is a simple step process to easily set up a hotspot on your laptop to connect your mobile devices to surf on the go! 1. We need to install 2 additional tools to make our hotspot work: hostapd(hotspot server)   dnsmasq(dns dhcp server) Open the terminal (Ctrl+alt+T) and type:  sudo apt-get install hostapd dnsmasq and press enter. Wait for them to install.   2. Stop these services and prevent them from starting on system start up. To do that; open a terminal and type each command per line and press enter: sudo service hostapd stop sudo service dnsmasq stop sudo update-rc.d hostapd disable sudo update-rc.d dnsmasq disable   3. Now we need to set the configuration files for both the installed tools. To open the config file of dnsmasq ; open a terminal (Ctrl+alt+T) and type sudo gedit /etc/dnsmasq.con...