Created attachment 324764 [details] emerge --info if i compile net-wireless/hostapd-1.0-r1 with the ssl useflag enabled, it compiles fine but does nothing on start (no process is created, no error error message, it simply does nothing) i used hostapd-0.7.3 till now, cause of this bug, but yesterday i built it from source (without ebuild) and manually created my own .config (by modifying defconfig) and it worked so i disabled the ssl useflag, and now everything is fine tested with x86 and x86_64
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Robert, Could you recompile hostapd with the USE="debug" flag, stop all network interfaces, network managers, run hostapd manually using "hostapd -ddd <path_to_config_file>" and attach the output to the bug report? Without that flag, gentoo builds it with "CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG=y" which makes it really quiet. Also, check iwconfig output after you started hostapd, it should be an additional interface in the list, something like: mon.wlan0 (or mon.wlan1).
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