Advice on hostap with Red Hat 9 and/or Fedora Core 1?

[Mark G. Spencer]

Hi Pavel,

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>
> To: "Mark G. Spencer" <mspencer at evidentdata.com>
> Cc: hostap at shmoo.com
> Date: Tue, Dec-16-2003 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Advice on hostap with Red Hat 9 and/or Fedora Core 1?
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Mark G. Spencer wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > I'm probably pushing my luck here .. do you know if there are any SuSE
> > 9.0 RPM's?  Searching Google I've found RPM's for the Athlon platform
> > for SuSE 8.2, but that's as close as I've found.  I've tried Mandrake
> > hostap RPM's before and as far as I could tell at the time, nothing
> > happened .. e.g. hostap didn't appear to be installed or running, so I
> > have no idea what those RPM's were supposed to be doing.
> 
> You should rebuild the RPM from source to make it match your kernel.
> Download the source package and use "rpm --rebuild hostap*.src.rpm"
> You may need the do it as root.
> 
> "nothing happened" is a poor description.  Try "modprobe hostap_cs" as
> root - this would show if the modules are installed and compatible with
> your kernel.
> 
> Once it's working, you can just start the PCMCIA subsystem and insert the
> card.  See the output of dmesg in case of errors.

This is a huge help .. thank you!  I'll try it tonight and see what happens.  I'm looking forward to all the added functionality of hostap ..

Mark