Hostapd

This page is for now a quick draft on how to enable hostapd on the Samsung NC10 (Minimoy)

References

• Mail from Steven Buytaert (2011 Sept 6th), referring to hostapd package and nl80211 driver.

Generic pages from Linux Wireless:

• http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd (hostapd is an IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator. This page is dedicated to the Linux documentation of it's implementation and use)
  • http://w1.fi/hostapd/ (homepage of hostapd)
• http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211 (mac80211 is a framework which driver developers can use to write drivers for SoftMAC wireless devices)
• http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers (page listing the mac80211 drivers)

Note that this page indicates that AP support is available for ath5k driver (such as on Minimoy) but not for the iwlagn driver (such as on nxl67002 or gryphon... gasp!). See also status on wikipedia.

• http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=mac80211.pdf (Johannes Berg's presentation)

For intel cards:

• http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=mac80211 (general information about the the mac80211 subsystem)
  • http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=mac80211&n=HOWTO-mac80211 (how to install the mac80211 subsystem on your system)

For atheros cards (as on Minimoy):

• http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros (main page dedicated to all Atheros drivers)
• http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k (page dedicated to ath5k driver)
• http://wiki.debian.org/ath5k (Debian page on ath5k)
• http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/05/setting-up-an-atheros-based-ap-using-ath5k-and-hostapd/ (a quick tutorial on how to setup hostapd on ath5k)