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jhpratt
Asked: 2014-08-15 18:40:36 +0800 CST

Turn off AP (hotspot) through terminal

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How can I turn off the AP hotspot through the terminal, since when I turn it off in network settings the program crashes.

Also: How do I get networking to start when the computer boots up? It doesn't for whatever reason

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You should be able to toggle the Wifi (AP) function using the nmcli command line utility e.g.

    nmcli r wifi off

    and

    nmcli r wifi on

    However if it is the backend network-manager that is crashing, the result may be the same.

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  2. The modified version of accepted answer just updated the device status to disabled / enabled but I found these below commands working for me in Ubuntu 18.04:

    Turn on wifi hotspot with default generated password:

    nmcli device wifi hotspot

    Note: this command will generate a new password for hotspot each time you run it.

    To display the password, use this command:

    nmcli device wifi hotspot --show-secrets

    To turn the hotspot off:

    nmcli radio wwan off
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