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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Dan,<br><br>Thank you very much for the last observation, that has corrected the link error<br>and I did not get the number of type definition conflicts on Fedora.<br><br>I did the following:-<br><blockquote><ol><li>make clean</li><li>make</li><li>make install</li><li>ls -l $(which hostapd)<br>-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3348471 May 9 00:35 /usr/local/bin/hostapd<br></li></ol></blockquote><br>That has resolved the issue of not locating the driver.<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><br>Now I am getting:-<br># hostapd ./hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf <br>Configuration file: ./hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf<br>nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode<br>nl80211 driver initialization failed.<br><br>I guess that I have a very basic config file:-<br><br># cat hostapd-naipsHotSpot.conf <br>#change wlan0 to your wireless device<br>interface=wlan0<br>#driver=iwlwifi<br>#driver=cfg80211<br>driver=nl80211<br>ssid=naipsHotSpot<br>channel=1<br><br>Best Regards<br>
Naipaul Ojar<br>
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<font style="" color="#ff0000">May you have a blessed Day</font>.<a href="http://www.jaxtr.com/user/callmelauncher.jsp?un=naipaul_ojar" style="text-decoration:underline;color:orange" target="_blank"></a><br> ~~0~0~0~~<br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Subject: Re: Has anyone configure HostAPd nl80211 for Fedora 18<br>> From: dcbw@redhat.com<br>> To: naipaul_ojar@hotmail.com<br>> CC: hostap@lists.shmoo.com<br>> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 16:32:26 -0500<br>> <br>> On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 20:52 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:<br>> > > On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 00:56 +0000, Naipaul Ojar wrote:<br>> > > > Hi Dan,<br>> > > > <br>> > > > I do have that file, and others also.<br>> > > > <br>> > > > In the directory:-<br>> > > > ../hostapd/hostapd-2.0/src/drivers/<br>> > > > driver_common.o/.d<br>> > > > driver_hostap.o/.d<br>> > > > driver_nl802011.o/.d<br>> > > > drivers.o/.d<br>> > > > <br>> > <br>> > > Ok, when you see this error, please run:<br>> > > <br>> > > make V=1<br>> > > <br>> > > and the post the output.<br>> <br>> Ok, that's better. Make sure you have:<br>> <br>> CONFIG_LIBNL32=y<br>> <br>> defined in your build config; I think that's the problem.<br>> <br>> Dan<br>> <br>> <br>> > > <br>> > > Dan<br>> > > <br>> > > > The current executable may not contain the nl80211 driver, and the linker fails against the library 'nl-genl'<br>> > <br>> > > <br>> > <br>> <br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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