Control: tag -1 wontfix Hi,
On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, at 14:57, [email protected] wrote: > Copying the example conf into /etc/hostapd allows starting the service. Yet > it fails: > sudo rc-service hostapd start > Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapd failed! > > Doing a manual start yields some more debug info: > /usr/sbin/hostapd -B -P /run/hostapd.pid /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf > Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device You see, this is *exactly* the reason why the package doesn’t ship a configuration file by default: everyone’s devices are different, everyone’s configuration is different, everyone has different use cases. You really need to think about what you want to achieve, read the documentation, and create a configuration suitable for your case. It’s not possible to ship a "one size fits all" config. -- Cheers, Andrej
