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I have successfully been using hostapd on my laptop to create an AP for years now, and have had no issues. Recently, however, this no longer seems to work despite the fact that I have not changed any settings.
I set up the laptop in question to connect to the internet via eth0, as I usually do, and everything appears to function without error. When I start hostapd on wlan0, networking via eth0 seems to fail. Running wireshark to look at data on eth0 reveals that no data is being received by eth0 at all (the network that I connect too is usually very busy with broadcast packets), and only a few ARP packets are sent. No errors are reported by hostapd. This can only be fixed by physically disconnecting the laptop, and connecting it again when hostapd is not running.
Below is my hostapd.conf (note that I have changed the password and ssid here for security reasons):
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=Wireless
channel=1
wep_key0="password"
wep_default_key=0
hw_mode=g
ieee80211n=1
Has something been changed recently that could cause this?
I hope that my issue is clear, as I am not sure quite how to describe it. Let me know if I should post any more information.
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