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pritambaral / hostapd-rtl871xdrv

Hostapd driver for RTL8188{C|CU|CUS} wifi chips.
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doc: More detailed build instructions for hostapd #14

Closed ankostis closed 8 years ago

ankostis commented 8 years ago

Building hostapd requires openssl header files. Under Debian, this is easily accomplished by running:

sudo apt install libssl-dev

It might be good to add this tip to the README.md since make command is suggested.

pritambaral commented 8 years ago

This is not a hostapd repo. I'd rather not have to maintain build instructions for various distros and configs (except this driver). I will shortly amend the README to remove any build instructions except patching.

ankostis commented 8 years ago

Right choice; but now that you are at it, correct also the link to hostapd-site: http://w1.fi/hostapd/

By the, way: did you try to submit this patch to hostapd and it was rejected?

pritambaral commented 8 years ago

@ankostis Link has been updated on master, won't update on old tags.

Haven't submitted to hostapd, because I am strongly against this poorly written, non-standard driver being included in and having to be maintained by mainline hostapd. I'd much prefer the mainline driver in the kernel gain stable nl80211 support.