Added a note about mac80211-based drivers and nl80211

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Jouni Malinen 2008-12-20 13:02:29 +02:00
parent a2b3a34bab
commit e6f9861ace
3 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ Current hardware/software requirements:
Prism54 driver for Intersil/Conexant Prism GT/Duette/Indigo
(http://www.prism54.org/)
mac80211-based drivers that support AP mode (with driver=nl80211).
This includes drivers for Atheros (ath9k) and Broadcom (b43)
chipsets.
Any wired Ethernet driver for wired IEEE 802.1X authentication
(experimental code)

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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ interface=wlan0
#bridge=br0
# Driver interface type (hostap/wired/madwifi/prism54/test/none/nl80211/bsd);
# default: hostap)
# default: hostap). nl80211 is used with all Linux mac80211 drivers.
# Use driver=none if building hostapd as a standalone RADIUS server that does
# not control any wireless/wired driver.
# driver=hostap

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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE
802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators, RADIUS client, EAP server, and
RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports Linux (Host
AP, madwifi, Prism54 drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).</p>
AP, madwifi, Prism54, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).</p>
<p>hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the
background and acts as the backend component controlling
@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).
<address><a href="mailto:j@w1.fi">Jouni Malinen</a></address>
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