Hello *,
in another thread I am using RADIUS-adjacent options in hostapd, for which I need the full hostapd binary, the stripped down one provided by the default wpad-basic multicall binary is not sufficient.
That should be straightforward to remedy, though. From a default installation, opkg remove wpad-basic-wolfssl and opkg install hostapd.
... or so I thought. Because I then still get the same error when calling hostapd as if I were using wpad-basic:
daemon.err hostapd: Line 44: unknown configuration item 'vlan_tagged_interface'
But, and here comes the weird part, when I go and "re-install" hostapd-common:
opkg --force-depends remove hostapd-common
opkg install hostapd-common
everything starts working, and the error disappears. And for the life of me, I can't figure out why that is. "Re-installing" hostapd-common does not change the hostapd binary, hostapd-common installs the byte-for-byte identical hostapd.sh that was installed before.
I am completely confused: What changes when I "re-install" hostapd-common? And how?
Edit: It gets weirder. If I unstall wpad-basic-wolfssl, before I install any other hostapd binary, and try to start wifi (which predictably fails), I get this in the syslog:
daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2790): ./mac80211.sh: eval: line 573: /usr/sbin/hostapd: not found
daemon.notice hostapd: Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf (phy wlan0) --> new PHY
daemon.err hostapd: Line 44: unknown configuration item 'vlan_tagged_interface'
The first line tells me that there is no /usr/sbin/hostapd, so what is the "hostapd" in the next two lines that tells me it's reading the configuration file and failing on an option?