Host AP on Fedora Core 3

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Jun Sun wrote:
> I am compiling hostap as add-on modules.  The problem appears to be that
> the modules are compiled as .o files instead of .ko files.  depmod -ae
> won't discover the .o hostap files. 
> 
> I did encounter a couple of other issues.  I summarize them as follows
> and hopefully other people can benefit:

You don't need kernel source any more to compile modules. Just compile 
modules against /lib/modules/kernel-2.6.9/build directory.

1. cd hostap_source_dir
2. make KERNEL_PATH=/lib/modules/kernel-2.6.9/build

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