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.conf As you press en
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