Has anyone configure HostAPd nl80211 for Fedora 18

[Naipaul Ojar]

Hi Dan,

Thank you very much for the last observation, that has corrected the link error
and I did not get the number of type definition conflicts on Fedora.

I did the following:-
make cleanmakemake installls -l $(which hostapd)
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3348471 May  9 00:35 /usr/local/bin/hostapd

That has resolved the issue of not locating the driver.

# hostapd -v
hostapd v2.0
User space daemon for IEEE 802.11 AP management,
IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
Copyright (c) 2002-2012, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> and contributors

Now I am getting:-
# hostapd ./hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf 
Configuration file: ./hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf
nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode
nl80211 driver initialization failed.

I guess that I have a very basic config file:-

# cat hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf 
#change wlan0 to your wireless device
interface=wlan0
#driver=iwlwifi
#driver=cfg80211
driver=nl80211
ssid=naipsHotSpot
channel=1

Best Regards

Naipaul Ojar

 

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> Subject: Re: Has anyone configure HostAPd nl80211 for Fedora 18
> From: dcbw at redhat.com
> To: naipaul_ojar at hotmail.com
> CC: hostap at lists.shmoo.com
> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 16:32:26 -0500
> 
> On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 20:52 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 00:56 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:
> > > > Hi Dan,
> > > > 
> > > > I do have that file, and others also.
> > > > 
> > > > In the directory:-
> > > > ../hostapd/hostapd-2.0/src/drivers/
> > > > driver_common.o/.d
> > > > driver_hostap.o/.d
> > > > driver_nl802011.o/.d
> > > > drivers.o/.d
> > > > 
> > 
> > > Ok, when you see this error, please run:
> > > 
> > > make V=1
> > > 
> > > and the post the output.
> 
> Ok, that's better.  Make sure you have:
> 
> CONFIG_LIBNL32=y
> 
> defined in your build config; I think that's the problem.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > > The current executable may not contain the nl80211 driver, and the linker fails against the library 'nl-genl'
> > 
> > > 
> >  		 	   		  
> 
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