Jetson/TX1 WiFi Access Point

Jetson TX1's WiFi controller can be run in Access Point (AP) hot-spot mode, enabling TX1 to host it's own WiFi network.

Setting Broadcom op_mode
To enable SSID broadcast, the driver’s  parameter has to be set to 2.

This can be set in two ways:
 * 1) Manually via   node:


 * 1) Add the following line to  :

Using hostapd
See the following guide to using hostapd service for running the Access Point: https://seravo.fi/2014/create-wireless-access-point-hostapd

Here is also a forum thread discussing the topic: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/910608/setting-up-wifi-access-point-on-tx1/