

When Hosted network supported : No then legacy hosted network support is not available on your adapter because you have WiFi Direct in Windows 10 etc. You may find this App store app helpful if your scenario allows for UX WiFi hardware, I strongly recommend a hardware chipset that uses the I've had to do a lot of work in this area. If youĪre working with headless devices or IoT device scenarios this is Other than support a limited mobile device WiFi 2.0 scenario. Implementation involves bluetooth and therefore it is questionable Pairing and authentication model between devices. WiFi direct enables - theoretically - a simpler

Schedule and re-orgs among teams changed the ownership and plan for Microsoft failure where product features were cut to make ship Which was not explained by Microsoft, is not understood by most peopleĬommenting on this in the web, and which mostly looks like a two-step Libraries to configure a WiFi Direct HostedNetwork. You dig around, that show how to use the modern-com (RT) UWP app The Win10 driver model changed the mechanism of HostedNetwork to beīased on WiFi Direct, and took control away from app-developers and To use the old model in Win10 you mustįind and install drivers from 2015 (8.1 or possibly earlier depending

Microsoft deprecated the WLAN HostedNetwork capability and it is NOTĪvailable for Win10 drivers. Original comments here (see updates below): The question: How could windows tool do it and how can I use this mechanism in my app? So it says my wifi adapter doesn't wifi sharing at all (I have last drivers from HP site).īUT when I try to create hotspot with Windows 10 builtin' tool it works. When I run netsh wlan show drivers it puts: Driver : Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 According to documemtation (last paragraph in Remarks section) it should to create a virtual wireless connection under Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center but it doesn't. And yet when I call WlanHostedNetworkInitSettings it returns succsess. I'm using WlanHostedNetworkStartUsing but it returns ERROR_INVALID_STATE. I'm trying to write a program which creates hotspot.
