2019-03-11, 12:07 PM
Confirmed, I used remove instead of purge to hold the config files.
sudo apt-get remove hostapd
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get install hostapd
To enable at startup:
sudo update-rc.d hostapd enable
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get remove hostapd
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get install hostapd
To enable at startup:
sudo update-rc.d hostapd enable
sudo reboot