NOTE: this page is for archival only, see the note at the end of the page.

hostapd Linux documentation page

http://w1.fi/hostapd/

hostapd is an IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator. This page is dedicated only for the Linux documentation. Please refer to the hostapd home page for further information.

As far a Linux is concerned, out of the old drivers you can only use 3 drivers hostapd:

All new mac80211 based drivers are supported with hostapd's nl80211 driver.

Getting hostapd

You can get the latest release of hostapd from:

git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git

Using hostapd with nl80211 requires you to have at least libnl-1.0 pre8 as this release introduced genl, Generic Netlink, which nl80211 relies on. Most distributions are shipping this or a later release by now.


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