I'm on TC11 64-bit, playing around with my hardware and trying to figure out how to use my wireless interface in STA (client) and AP (host) modes simultaneously, which the hardware supports. I found a nice step-by-step guide here:
http://arnaudr.io/2015/12/05/setting-up-a-wi-fi-software-access-point/But never mind the particularities. The problem is that hostapd refuses to talk to me: It fails silently, with no terminal output whatsoever.
It doesn't matter if I edit /usr/local/etc/hostapd.conf then start hostapd like this:
$ sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/hostapd start
Or create /home/bruno/hostapd.conf and start hostapd like this:
$ sudo hostapd -dd /home/bruno/hostapd.conf
Either way, it's a silent failure with no output from hostapd whatsoever.
Can anyone image a reason why even with verbose output (-d or -dd) there is absolutely no terminal output from hostapd? I don't need help with the specifics of my project, I just need to figure out a way to make hostapd talk to me (make its error messages visible)!