I upgraded my fedora to version 32 from fedora 31. Although not 100% sure I am almost certain the issue occurred since this update, I can’t provide internet to my wireless devices anymore.
I can create a Hotspot using nm-applet, the hotspot is created and my devices can connect to the hotspot but can’t access the internet. I don’t have big network skills hence I opened this ticket.
Now if I use gnome and use the user settings UI the “create hotspot” button in the wifi settings is disabled and if I hover it “System policy prohibits use as a Hotspot”. It’s similar to this issue “Turn On Wifi Hotspot …” option became inactive with “System policy prohibits use as a Hotspot”. I tried to downgrade my kernel as well but the problem persist.
Again this is not related to the window manager, i tried in i3, sway, gnome on xorg, mate but nothing can do. I tried tweaking nm-applet, nmcli, nmtui but still can’t find what is the problem.
I saw the mention of the bridge elsewhere, could it be related to the bridge ? Again I really don’t know about networking well so I prefer asking.
My Android phone connects to my Fedora 32 hotspot, but it hangs on “Optaining IP address…”. So it seems that upgrading to Fedora 32 breaks DHCP services. I guess this involves the dnsmasq process.
The only error message I can find is this:
dnsmasq[31753]: chown of PID file /run/nm-dnsmasq-wlo1.pid failed: Operation not permitted