Interestingly it appears that now the driver (vers 2.1) does something with error, and before it ignored it.
a solution (in desktop cases) is to do following to release resource.. then hostapd has no error.... sudo nmcli nm wifi off sudo rfkill unblock wlan this info has been gleaned from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1221799 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1289047 Title: [Trusty] hostapd package is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1289047/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs