On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 09:28:01AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > assigning an IP address does an implicit up > > otherwise, it doesn't happen > > in hindsight, not having any implicit up would probably be better, but > obviously not reasonable to change now.
Yes, I agree but it is weird in the case of hostapd because, at least for me, I don't expect the interface to have an IP. Perhaps I missed the step in the guide where it said to up the interface. It was a bit frustrating for me spending some hours diddling with the config and almost buying another usb dongle - the only thing that stopped me doing that was the fact all the readily available ones were the same realtek chipsets as I already had. Hopefully my fumblings will help someone in the future... -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
