Bug 436060 – hostapd-1.0 does not start when compiled with ssl

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description robert 2012-09-24 03:09:41 UTC]

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

[Comment 1 Elijah "Armageddon" El Lazkani (amd64 AT) 2012-09-24 03:19:56 UTC]

Please do NOT CC arches on your own, we have no business in here.

[Comment 2 Anton Bolshakov 2012-09-24 17:19:38 UTC]

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).

[Comment 3 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2012-09-26 01:26:15 UTC]

unable to recreate, feel free to add more info and reopen.