Comment 4 for bug 1886169

hotspot function also fails for me

checked
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
also
grep -r 'ap_scan=2' /etc
turned up nothing so i am puzzled where/why ap_scan=2 would be set

installed hostapd pkg but this did not fix it

tangential:
seems redhat had this failure mode in 2017 and nixos in 2019, dunno if related, workarounds vary
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/67956

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463245
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1518190
probably related to
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151221956904515&w=2