<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>--</div><div style>Paul</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ayron Jungren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajungren@0x3b.com" target="_blank">ajungren@0x3b.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Mihai Moldovan <<a href="mailto:ionic@ionic.de">ionic@ionic.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Just tested it. Doesn't happen here... then again, what are your USE flags?<br>
> If you can, please post your config file.<br>
<br>
</div>USE="crda ipv6 ssl wps -debug -logwatch -madwifi"<br>
<br>
I've tried tons of config files, including `/dev/null' (thinking it<br>
would at least produce an error). Right now I'm using a config based<br>
on <a href="http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless/Access_point#WPA" target="_blank">http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless/Access_point#WPA</a> changed to<br>
have my SSID and PSK. That being said, after I sent the email to the<br>
mailing list, I tried the binary from Ubuntu's hostapd package and it<br>
works just fine so it's not a configuration issue; there's a problem<br>
with Gentoo's ebuild somewhere, so I'll probably be filing a bug on<br>
Gentoo's Bugzilla.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> That's normal. It won't background itself, unless you start it with -B. Could<br>
> you please be more clear, indicating what does happen and what not?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm aware of that, I was merely pointing out that there wasn't a bug<br>
that set the flag telling hostapd go into the background without -B.<br>
What happens is absolutely nothing. As I mentioned, `strace' shows it<br>
exiting immediately after it reads the configuration file, without<br>
touching the Wi-Fi card. I don't even get the `Configuration file:<br>
/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' message.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Thanks for your time,<br>
Ayron Jungren<br>
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