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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Dan,<br><br>Thanks for your advice on how to compile the hostapd v2.0. I did install<br><ol><li>Package libnl3-devel.x86_64 0:3.2.21-1.fc18 will be installed</li><li>I did add the line for CONFIG_LIBNL20=y in the .config to build the hostapd<br></li></ol><br>$ which hostapd<br>/sbin/hostapd<br><br>I copied the following to /sbin , after backing up the original two files.<br> hostapd<br> hostapd_cli<br><br>I have seen other users stating other issues using 'iwlwifi', but I cannot seem to get<br>invoking hostapd<br><br>Results:-<br>===========================<br><br>sudo hostapd ~/hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf<br>Configuration file: /home/nojar/hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf<br>Line 3: invalid/unknown driver 'iwlwifi'<br>1 errors found in configuration file '/home/nojar/hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf'<br><br><br><br>$ lspci -k | grep -A 3 -i "network"<br>00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)<br> Subsystem: Lenovo Device 21ce<br> Kernel driver in use: e1000e<br>00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)<br>--<br>03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)<br> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN<br> Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi<br>0d:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 08)<br><br>$ hostapd -v<br>hostapd v2.0<br>User space daemon for IEEE 802.11 AP management,<br>IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator<br>Copyright (c) 2002-2012, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors<br>[nojar@naipaulpc ~]$ modinfo iwlwifi | grep depend<br>depends: cfg80211<br><br>$ cat hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf<br>#change wlan0 to your wireless device<br>interface=wlan0<br>driver=iwlwifi<br>#driver=cfg80211<br>ssid=naipsHotSpot<br>channel=1<br><br>$ ifconfig -a | egrep "Link|inet|: flag|^$"<br>em1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br> inet 192.168.0.65 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255<br> inet6 fe80::f2de:f1ff:fe67:8474 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link><br><br>lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536<br> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0<br> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host><br><br>virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br> inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255<br><br>virbr0-nic: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br><br>vmnet1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br> inet 192.168.96.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.96.255<br> inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link><br><br>vmnet8: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br> inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.100.255<br> inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link><br><br>wc0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1348<br> inet 9.167.243.31 netmask 255.255.252.0 destination 9.167.243.31<br><br>wlan0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500<br><br><br><br>Best Regards<br>
Naipaul Ojar<br>
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