Hotspot mode not working for devices with Halium 9 or higher

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Hotspot mode not working for devices with Halium 9 or higher #1939

Open Flohack74 opened 2 years ago

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

Device: axolotl
Channel: devel
Build: any since ever

Steps to reproduce

Turn hotspot on
UI times out
No hotspot activated
WiFi also is dead needs reboot

Expected behavior

Hotspot switches on and can be used

Logfiles and additional information

This is due to Canonical implementing a weird firmware switcher in wpa_supplicant, where via DBus a vertain call to Android´s libwifi is being made. Since more modern Android versions do not have that lib anymore the whole functionality is broken now.

Vistaus commented 2 years ago

Same on the Cosmo Communicator. Reported it months ago with no response. Is there a workaround for this, like downgrading wpa_supplicant or something?

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

No, sorry, no workaround, it needs proper fixing to use the Android API

buchnerh commented 2 years ago

Is it really a Halium-9-problem? My Vollaphone should also be a Halium-9-device but here everything is working fine.

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

@buchnerh for Vollaphone this was fixed with a hack to work, also because its Mediatek it only works there.

j2g2rp commented 2 years ago

@buchnerh for Vollaphone this was fixed with a hack to work, also because its Mediatek it only works there.

Talking about vollaphone... On Vollaphone X sometimes hotspot doesn't work and a reboot is needed. Is related?

Flohack74 commented 2 years ago

I can be related bu who knows. needs further digging probably.