Compiling wpa_supplicant?

Compiling wpa_supplicant?

[Jon Loeliger]

Folks,

Has hostapd's wpa_supplicant code been brought up to a
consistent standard with the current libnl?  In particular,
I'm trying to compile wpa_supplicant to use driver_nl80211,
but it is failing due to the use of the obsolete 'struct nl_handle'
in src/driver/driver_nl80211.c, line 131 or so.

I am using:
    $ git remote -v
    origin	git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap-06.git
    $ git rev-parse HEAD
    fa4e296f542af01da135d997358d6d45a32dd59e
and:
    $ git remote -v
    origin	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/netlink/libnl.git
    $ git rev-parse HEAD
    ef8ba32e0ca7ac7bbbaf87f6fd7b197af18aed25

In libnl, I see this commit:

        commit b624b9ed936f4c23bc4f30d8dce34da49775dd15
        Author: Thomas Graf <tgr@plip.localdomain>
        Date:   Wed Dec 10 18:02:25 2008 +0100
        
            Remove obsoleted struct nl_handle definition

Is there a version of hostapd/wpa_suppliant that is more
up-to-date WRT libnl-2.0?  Or should I just use the wext
driver for now?

Thanks,
jdl

Re: Compiling wpa_supplicant?

[Johannes Berg]

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On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:50 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

> Is there a version of hostapd/wpa_suppliant that is more
> up-to-date WRT libnl-2.0?  Or should I just use the wext
> driver for now?

I would suggest you compile against a released version of libnl, namely
1.1 :) Otherwise, you can rip the compat code out off iw and stick it
into wpa_supplicant/hostapd.

johannes

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Re: Compiling wpa_supplicant?

[Jon Loeliger]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 20:34 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:50 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> 
> > Is there a version of hostapd/wpa_suppliant that is more
> > up-to-date WRT libnl-2.0?  Or should I just use the wext
> > driver for now?
> 
> I would suggest you compile against a released version of libnl, namely
> 1.1 :)

I was afraid someone would say something like that... :-)
And since that seems to be effort in the wrong direction,
I was even more afraid someone would say something like:

> Otherwise, you can rip the compat code out off iw and stick it
> into wpa_supplicant/hostapd.

So I did something like that.  Patch to follow.

> johannes

Thanks,
jdl