Mata Hotspot (wifi teethering) not working

Summary

wifi teethering not working on mata

Steps to reproduce

enable hotspot

What is the current behavior?

just displays error:

What is the expected correct behavior?

hotspot is activated and working

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

logcat_01-07-2019_12-04-29.txt

Possible fixes

It seems that hostapd.[conf|deny|accept] configuration files are not created on mata I manually created them in the /data/misc/wifi folder based on an example from my nexus 5 LOS After that it works fine. Of course to get to this folder, one needs root.

Edited Jan 10, 2019 by thilo