Fedora 18, how do I get nl80211 or cfg80211 driver ?

[Krishna Chaitanya]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Naipaul Ojar <naipaul_ojar at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chaitanya,
>
> I have recently downloaded the hostapd v2.0, and I had some issues compiling
> due to missing
> Netlink header files and libraries in Fedora 18.
>
> When I compile it with the macro :-
> CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y
>
> I get the fatal compile error, missing header files :-
>        ../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c:19:31: fatal error:
> netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file or directory
>
> --> There is no such directory in my header files directory, there is no
> netlink directory.
>
> cd /usr/include
> ls -d n*
> nc_tparm.h     ncursesw  netatalk   netinet    netpbm   nfs         nss.h
> ncurses        ndbm.h    netax25    netipx     netrom   nl_types.h  numpy
> ncurses_dll.h  net       netdb.h    netiucv    netrose  nspr4
> ncurses.h      netash    neteconet  netpacket  newt.h   nss3
>
> =============
>
> I have previously installed libnl.x86_64.1.1-16.fc18
> and today I have installed libnl-devel.x86_64.1.1-16.fc18
>
> The compilation has reached to the linking stage and has failed :-
> /bin/ld: cannot find -lnl-gen1
>
> Any ideas on what libraries will contain that module, nl-gen1 ?

Hmm...i too faced the same issue. Installing the libnl-3.0 and
libnl-genl-3.0 resolved the issue
for me. (mine is a ubuntu).