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Give remedial suggestion for hostapd bug

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Hostapd v2 introduces a bug which currently throws the following error
and initialization fails
    nl80211: Could not configure driver mode
    nl80211 driver initialization failed.
    hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlp3s0ap wasn't started

More Info: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1289047

Give a suggestive message to the user when hostapd fails because of the
above bug outlining the workaround mentioned in the above bug report.
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Karthik 2014-08-13 19:33:51 +05:30 committed by oblique
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@ -521,7 +521,13 @@ fi
# start access point
echo "hostapd command-line interface: hostapd_cli -p $CONFDIR/hostapd_ctrl"
trap - SIGINT # reset trap
hostapd $CONFDIR/hostapd.conf || die "Failed to run hostapd, maybe a program is interfering."
if ! hostapd $CONFDIR/hostapd.conf; then
echo -e "\nError: Failed to run hostapd, maybe a program is interfering."
echo -e "\nIf an error like 'n80211: Could not configure driver mode' was thrown, it is probably becasue of a bug in hostapd."
echo "Try running 'nmcli nm wifi off; rfkill unblock wlan' before starting create_ap."
die
fi
cleanup
exit 0