On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 08:31 -0700, Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Eliminate the possibilities:try to connect other phone's hot spot to > your laptop.
I tried this with an ASUS tablet, an Alcatel 1 smartphone, and an unknown smartphone branded by Vodafone. The last two are Oreo, the first one is a rather old Android version, at most 6. But they are all immediately seen by my Buster laptop, and the WI-FI connection works perfectly. > try using third party app on your phone to set up hot spot. I tried many, but most of them are just useless shortcut. Anyway no one works. Can you suggest one? > try to connect nokia 3 to other buster ( or even windows to test) I have not another Buster, but I have a Stretch laptop, which has no problem with my three Nokia 3 smartphone. > set up hot spot from your laptop and see if you can see it in nokia 3 I did it, and at least one of the Nokia 3 sees the SSID of the hotspot, but can't connect. The hotspot is created with WEP security, but the Nokia 3 says the connection has no security at all. This is wrong, but at least explains why the Nokia 3 can't connect to the Buster hotspot. I even tried to create another connection on the Nokia 3, setting WEP as security and the right password, but I didn't succede. Maybe I made some mistake. Sorry for the long delay... I had no connection for many days! Best regards. > > On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 10:42 +0200, Nimrod wrote: > > Hi, > > my (very old) laptop has been working like a charm until I > > updatedfrom Stretch to Buster. Among the other, the issue in the > > subject isvery relevant for me. > > Here is what happens when I turn on wi-fi hotspot on Nokia > > 3smartphone (Android up to date): > > 1) any smartphone or tablet in the family can connect to my Nokia > > 3hotspot. > > 2) my laptop can connect at least to a tablet hotspot (the tablet > > hasa rather old Android version, I guess 6 or even less, and it > > cannotbe updated); also, my laptop finds a lot of wi-fi networks > > around(currently I'm in a building in the small town of Anzio, > > Italy, butalmost every corner of the town is full of wi-fi > > networks) > > 3) my laptop cannot even see any hotspot provided by a Nokia > > 3smartphone with Android up to date; we have three of them, and > > Ichecked everyone one of them: they all can be used by the tablet > > inpoint 2) above, and none of them are even found by my laptop. > > It seems there is something wrong with my laptop and Nokia 3 > > whenthey try to communicate. Currently I'm still using my Nokia 3 > > as amodem via Bluetooth, but the connection is rather slow. When > > the wi-fi hotspot was working the speed was much higher. > > Some data: > > - the laptop is a HP 6730s, quite slow but incredibly robust; > > Busteris up to date- all the Nokia 3 have Android 9 July update > > Thanks in advance for any hint. > > -- Nimrod <nim...@virgilio.it>
