Support for intel 6300 AGN, hostapd 1.0-3 Fedora 18

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 00:54 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:
> I want to configure a hotspot on my laptop using hostapd and I have the following configuration:-
> http://nims11.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/hostapd-the-linux-way-to-create-virtual-wifi-access-point/
> 
> 1) lspci -k | grep -A 3 -i "network"
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
>     Subsystem: Lenovo Device 21ce
>     Kernel driver in use: e1000e
> 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
> --
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)
>     Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN
>     Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
> 
> 2) modinfo iwlwifi | grep depend
> depends:        cfg80211
> 
> 3) uname -r
> 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64
>  - Fedora does not have the kernel or header files to support hostapd v2.0, without the netlink header files.
> =========
>   CC  ../src/drivers/driver_hostap.c
> ../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c:19:31: fatal error: netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> make: *** [../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.o] Error 1

Install libnl3-devel and then make sure you have CONFIG_LIBNL20=y in
your build config.

Dan

> =========
> 
> 4) cat hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf
> #change wlan0 to your wireless device
> interface=wlan0
> #driver=iwlwifi
> driver=cfg80211
> ssid=naipsHotSpot
> channel=1
> 
> 5) rpm -qa | grep hostapd
> hostapd-1.0-3.fc18.x86_64
> 
> When I run the command:-
> sudo hostapd ~/hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf
> Configuration file: /home/nojar/hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf
> Line 3: invalid/unknown driver 'iwlwifi'
> 1 errors found in configuration file '/home/nojar/hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf'
> 
> I was quite surprised to see that other users have gotten this device to work.
> 
> Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong.
> 
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