Has anyone configure HostAPd nl80211 for Fedora 18

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 21:45 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:
> I did post questions to the same thread, but no responses were provide to later threads. I do appologize for that.
> 
> Here is the results for the libnl3-devel.
> There are no results for libnl3-genl

You don't actually need a "libnl3-genl" because that library is included
in the libnl3-devel RPM that you've already go t installed.

So since I believe you  have everything required already, your build is
probably fine.  The last thing I said on that thread was:

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The appropriate hostap driver is "nl80211"
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Sorry if my reply wasn't clear enough, but what you want to do is use:

driver=nl80211

in your hostap config.  The hostap/wpa_supplicant "driver" for the
hardware you have is called "nl80211", not cfg80211 or iwlwifi.

Dan

> #yum install libnl3-devel
> Package libnl3-devel-3.2.21-1.fc18.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do
> 
> #rpm -qa | grep libnl | sort
> libnl-1.1-16.fc18.x86_64
> libnl3-3.2.21-1.fc18.x86_64
> libnl3-cli-3.2.21-1.fc18.x86_64
> libnl3-devel-3.2.21-1.fc18.x86_64
> libnl-devel-1.1-16.fc18.x86_64
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Naipaul Ojar
>  
> 
>   ~~0~0~0~~
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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: Mon, 6 May 2013 16:32:17 -0500
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 21:13 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:
> > > Thanks for posting the response.
> > > 
> > > I have taken this approach because I have been responding to the mailing list from 17-23 April and I still do not have an answer. The previous posting was titled :-
> > >     "Fedora 18, how do I get nl80211 or cfg80211 driver ?‏"
> > 
> > Then typically, you reply to the same discussion thread instead of
> > posting a new one, so that we have context from the discussion.  Then
> > I'd have known this was the same problem as before.
> > 
> > > The last status is:-
> > > >Hmm...i too faced the same issue. Installing the libnl-3.0 and
> > > >libnl-genl-3.0 resolved the issue
> > > >for me.I have 'libnl-3.0' but I have not been able to locate the 'libnl-genl-3.0' library.
> > 
> > yum install libnl3-devel
> > 
> > is what you need to get the appropriate libraries on Fedora.  That RPM
> > includes all the development headers and libraries needed to build
> > software that uses libnl version 3.  For Fedora, typically the
> > "development headers" packages are the same name as the master package,
> > plus "-devel" added to the name.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > > I will provide any answers to any diagnostic question posted to me.
> > > 
> > > Best Regards
> > > 
> > > Naipaul Ojar
> > >  
> > > 
> > >   ~~0~0~0~~
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 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: Mon, 6 May 2013 12:25:57 -0500
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 12:59 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:
> > > > > I have attempted to un-successfully to configure nl80211 for Fedora 18.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have installed hostapd v2 but I am unable to start the daemon and be able
> > > > > to connect to the nl80211 driver.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have attempted v2.0 and earlier versions.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am very interested in a working configuration, for Fedora.
> > > > 
> > > > Posting logs from hostap about what's going wrong would be a first step.
> > > > 
> > > > Dan
> > > > 
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