Can anyone help? I have problems turning my laptop to a wireless Access Point

Greetings to all!

I have an old laptop Dell xps m1330 which I want to tu into an AP and use its inteal wireless adapter to provide devices coected to it, access to the inteet. I have found this link useful in doing so the above: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...essAccessPoint.

I have followed the steps in this webpage to configure my devices.

ifconfig gives this output:

wlp12s0 Link encap:Etheet HWaddr 00:1c:bf:32:c2:5e
inet addr:192.168.1.62 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:bfff:fe32:c25e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1639 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1073397 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:275602 (275.6 KB)

wlx00c0ca464f8d Link encap:Etheet HWaddr 00:c0:ca:46:4f:8d
inet addr:10.0.0.7 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Some clarifications:
1. wlp12s0: It is the laptops inteal wireless adapter's interface that is coected to the inteet
2. wlx00c0ca464f8d: It is the usb adapter's interface which I have configure to be an AP using hostapd

Some info on the devices with lshw -C network:

1. wlp12s0: configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945 driverversion=4.2.0-16-generic firmware=15.32.2.9 ip=192.168.1.62 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
2. wlx00c0ca464f8d: configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.2.0-16-generic firmware=0.29 ip=10.0.0.7 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

Both networks seem to be up. However the AP does not seem to be broadcasting and therefore it does not appear in the list of networks.

I have 2 questions currently:
1. How do I make the AP to broadcast and hence being able to coect to it.
2. How I can "bridge" the two wireless adapters, so that all devices coected to the AP have access to the inteet as well?

I would much appreciate any help.