source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/beyond-clfs/common/hostapd.xml@ 5c80a16

Last change on this file since 5c80a16 was 884672b, checked in by Maarten Lankhorst <mlankhorst@…>, 15 years ago

book: Add hostapd and libnl to beyond section

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-bclfs-hostapd" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="hostapd.html"?>
10
11 <title>hostapd-&hostapd-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-bclfs-hostapd">
14 <primary sortas="a-hostapd">hostapd</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>Hostapd is a daemon required for setting up a wireless access point, it supports
21 WEP, WPA and WPA2 encryption and can optionally use EAP for authentification, but since
22 this feature requires OpenSSL only basic WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption will be compiled here.
23 </para>
24
25 </sect2>
26
27 <sect2 role="installation">
28 <title>Installation of hostapd</title>
29
30 <para os="a">By default only a very basic hostapd is made, but hostapd supports a lot of other options as well. Write a basic config file for hostap:</para>
31
32<screen os="b"><userinput>
33cd hostapd; cat &gt; .config &lt;&lt; EOF
34# Support for nl80211 driver
35CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y
36# Use v2.0 of the netlink appi
37CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LIBNL20
38LDFLAGS += -lnl-genl
39
40CONFIG_RSN_PREAUTH=y
41
42# PeerKey handshake for Station to Station Link (IEEE 802.11e DLS)
43CONFIG_PEERKEY=y
44# Support draft ieee 802.11n
45CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y
46
47# Remove debugging code that is printing out debug messages to stdout.
48# This can be used to reduce the size of the hostapd considerably if debugging
49# code is not needed.
50CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG=y
51EOF
52</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
55
56<screen os="d"><userinput>make CC=${CC} CFLAGS="-g -Os -Wall"</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
59
60<screen os="f"><userinput>cp hostapd hostapd_cli ${CLFS}/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
61
62 <para os="g">Install the bootscripts from the clfs-bootscripts package:</para>
63
64<screen os="h"><userinput>make install-hostapd DESTDIR=${CLFS}</userinput></screen>
65
66 </sect2>
67
68 <sect2 id="contents-hostapd" role="content">
69 <title>Contents of hostapd</title>
70
71 <segmentedlist>
72 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
73
74 <seglistitem>
75 <seg>To be Written</seg>
76 </seglistitem>
77 </segmentedlist>
78
79 </sect2>
80
81</sect1>
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