hostapd Won't Launch

[Paul Stewart]

If you or your package maintainer didn't enable "CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE=y" in
the hostapd config, you'll end up with this behavior.  A broken
configuration will not output any feedback at all.

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Paul


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ayron Jungren <ajungren at 0x3b.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:
> > Just tested it. Doesn't happen here... then again, what are your USE
> flags?
> > If you can, please post your config file.
>
> USE="crda ipv6 ssl wps -debug -logwatch -madwifi"
>
> I've tried tons of config files, including `/dev/null' (thinking it
> would at least produce an error). Right now I'm using a config based
> on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless/Access_point#WPA changed to
> have my SSID and PSK. That being said, after I sent the email to the
> mailing list, I tried the binary from Ubuntu's hostapd package and it
> works just fine so it's not a configuration issue; there's a problem
> with Gentoo's ebuild somewhere, so I'll probably be filing a bug on
> Gentoo's Bugzilla.
>
> > That's normal. It won't background itself, unless you start it with -B.
> Could
> > you please be more clear, indicating what does happen and what not?
>
> I'm aware of that, I was merely pointing out that there wasn't a bug
> that set the flag telling hostapd go into the background without -B.
> What happens is absolutely nothing. As I mentioned, `strace' shows it
> exiting immediately after it reads the configuration file, without
> touching the Wi-Fi card. I don't even get the `Configuration file:
> /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' message.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Ayron Jungren
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