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How to start hostsapd service every time my compute starts

I have Ubuntu Server 13.10 and kernel 3.11

When I tried sudo update-rc.d hostapd defaults I got the following

System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/hostapd already exist.

and sudo service hostapd status shows that the service is not running

Videonauth
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loo3y35
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Sounds like you might have gotten past this, as the daemon reports it is running when querying status.

My /etc/default/hostapd file did not define where to find the hostapd.conf file (as provided by Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS). And so, I received no output when running sudo service hostapd start or sudo service hostapd status.

Once I directed the out-of-the-box init script to a configuration file, the service was able to start, and show status.

Maybe this was done on purpose to force you to think about configuration before the wireless services start.

Greg
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