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To obtain hostapd you could either download a binary version from some reliable source or compile it from sources. You might be slightly better off compiling from sources, so that you get e fairly recent version, but it's up to you. Just don't try using really old hostapd versions like 0.6.7 on 2.6+ kernels: hostapd has followed the kernel wireless stack drivers and transitioned from only supporting FullMAC devices to supporting SoftMAC on almost all devices trough nl80211. Nowadays the combination of both hardware and driver supporting FullMAC is hard to come by (Prism2/ | To obtain hostapd you could either download a binary version from some reliable source or compile it from sources. You might be slightly better off compiling from sources, so that you get e fairly recent version, but it's up to you. Just don't try using really old hostapd versions like 0.6.7 on 2.6+ kernels: hostapd has followed the kernel wireless stack drivers and transitioned from only supporting FullMAC devices to supporting SoftMAC on almost all devices trough nl80211. Nowadays the combination of both hardware and driver supporting FullMAC is hard to come by (Prism2/ | ||
- | Hostapd sources can be downloaded from [[http:// | + | Hostapd sources can be downloaded from [[http:// |
Compiling hostapd is really simple: | Compiling hostapd is really simple: | ||
- extract the sources | - extract the sources | ||
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- edit the defconfig file and enable any optional features you need (default is fine for a simple setup) | - edit the defconfig file and enable any optional features you need (default is fine for a simple setup) | ||
- copy the defconfig file to .config | - copy the defconfig file to .config | ||
+ | - make a softlink for netlink includes (cd / | ||
- make | - make | ||
- make install (or optionally just put in / | - make install (or optionally just put in / |