Shai,

On Sunday, May 18, 2025 2:21:08 AM Mountain Standard Time Shai Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying for a while, and failing, to get a hotspot working on
> my (testing) desktop, so my phone can connect through it.
> 
> At first, it was a problem with autentication. But that has been solved
> now. The phone connects to the access points, and once I added
> kdeconnect as a service to the shared-zone configuration on the
> firewall, I can use that -- but I don't get access to the internet. I
> don't get it even when the firewall is off.
> 
> When I look at it at kernel level:
> 
>       cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/forwarding
> 
> prints just a series of "1"s.
> 
> I had suspected it might have something to do with earlier messing with
> the hotspot connection. So I deleted it and created a new one. No
> change. The way I created it was with the "Hotspot" button in the
> network panel applet (see attached image, if the mailing-list doesn't
> kill it on the way).
> 
>  Any idea where to look next?

I tried to setup on of these Hotspots by clicking this button and it didn’t 
work for me either.  Mine failed at the “Setting network address” stage with 
the error “IP configuration was unavailable”.

I would recommend you submit a bug report.  Probably beginning with the 
plasma-nm package, although it might get moved somewhere else depending on 
where the real problem is.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
so...@debian.org

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