Can't get wifi hotspot to work

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I don’t use wifi but i wanted to try out LocalSend for moving some files from phone to laptop.
I have ethernet connected to laptop. I turned on wifi, and created a hotspot. My phone can’t find it. does it not work if using ethernet?
thanks

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lspci and the section with the network adapter please

Also, please add a lot more info about your system, your fedora variant, what hardware, what desktop, what phone, …

Might even add some tags :wink:

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What might be easier is creating a hotspot on your phone and let the laptop find that one. That is the way I would do it, never done it your way.

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Added ethernet, gnome, hotspot, networking, networkmanager, wifi

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For LocalSend, both devices need to be on the same network. Having one device as a HotSpot for the other one achieves that - no matter which way around . So yes, it is a solution, in particular if one device is on a LAN which the other device (phone) cannot connect to.

Independent of which same network both devices are on - LocalSend works only if devices are allowed to talk to each other on that network (no “guest WiFi” or such, i.e. no device/AP isolation).

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Interesting stuff above thanks!

My setup is simpler than people think.

I have fibre internet to the premises. I don’t use WiFi at all, ever. My laptop uses ethernet to router, my phone uses cellular data only.

To use LocalSend I noticed it needs to be on WiFi and same network. So i thought, since I have ‘free’ high speed internet into my laptop (ethernet), maybe I could make the laptop a hotspot, connect to it (wifi) from phone, and get LocalSend working. That was the idea anyway. But after turning on the hotspot, the phone can’t see it.

Sorry, details:

Fedora 40WS Gnome on Dell 5420
Pixel running GrapheneOS (android)

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Sorry yes for this case of course

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Added localsend

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So, the phone can’t see the hotspot even though WiFi on the phone is on and laptop provides a hotspot via WiFi?

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yep. I’ll give it another go in a while as updates have been run recently, but yes there was no wifi detectable by my phone when I posted this thread

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