I dunno, I had major problems running a USB wifi stick in Access Point mode on Fedora. It could be related to the actual hardware and firmware, but also to Linux network stack.
It is the hardware. Most adaptors cannot say connect to a router and make a hotspot. But one can find adaptors that can, as I call it, multiplex.
Why do you say you can’t? According to this guide, you do. You just have to add more SSID entries.
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This looks fairly straightforward. I’ve tried it myself, but it seems it’s failing.
I believe the issue is the ISP using PPPoE over VLAN. I’ve gone through some pages but can’t wrap my head around how to do it. Do you know how to do that as well?
It would be best to know for sure, but I updated the above instruction anyway.
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Thanks. It seems I cannot activate the WAN. I had to take some pictures of the PC as it’s a server with no GUI, so no way to perform a screenshot.
Edit: I checked the username and the password (the username follows an XXXXX@digi pattern), and the VLAN 802.1Q = 20 (so for VID I’m using 20).
Thank you pal! I just opened a new thread. Your support was super helpful, and I appreciate a lot the time you took on this matter 
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I managed to get it done, but I’m having trouble with the firewall. See my updated post with the commands I used.
What are the symptoms of the problem?
Also let’s verify your runtime firewall configuration:
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
sudo firewall-cmd --get-active-zones
sudo firewall-cmd --get-active-policies
sudo firewall-cmd --info-zone=internal
sudo firewall-cmd --info-zone=external
sudo firewall-cmd --info-policy=internal-external
Hi my friend! I managed to get it working! The issue was I didn’t set the WAN to connection.zone external. Now it works beautifully (well, not so much because I still cannot get access to the Fedora Cockpit, but at least I’m in a much better place now than 1 week ago).
Nonetheless, the results have been disappointing. Using an old Thinkpad X260, I can get just 126Mbps out of the 300Mbps my ISP provides me (and it goes dramatically down to 12.6Mbps when I’m in my room). My house is tiny, so the space is definitely not the issue. It just seems that an old laptop doesn’t have antennas powerful enough to beam high speed internet at the desired (by modern standards) speeds. I don’t know how will it be for newer laptops, but at this point, it seems the experiment is over for me, and I’ll just use this PC as I originally intended: as a media and home server, and let the router do its work. Thank you very much for your help!
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It should be like this:
sudo dnf install cockpit
sudo systemctl enable cockpit.socket --now
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=internal --add-service=cockpit
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
That’s unfortunate, let’s hope you find more suitable hardware in the future.
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