Host AP driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3, hostapd, and WPA Supplicant
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One should make sure that he or she updates the drivers in Windows Vista. Next, one should browse network card drivers and then find the Intersil network card drives. Select Intersil IEEE 802.11 LAN USB Adapter and then download it. After completing the installation, one should restart and then reboot the PC so as to complete the process. The Intel® Driver & Support Assistant enables you to scan computing devices for the latest drivers available from Intel. This tool has the main interface hosted on Intel’s support website and provides a more integrated support experience to users.
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Introduction
This project includes three main components:
- Host AP - Linux driver for Prism2/2.5/3
- hostapd - user space daemon for access points, including, e.g., IEEE 802.1X/WPA/EAP Authenticator for number of Linux and BSD drivers, RADIUS client, integrated EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server
- wpa_supplicant user space IEEE 802.1X/WPA supplicant (wireless client) for number of Linux, BSD, and Windows drivers
Host AP is a Linux driver for wireless LAN cards based on Intersil'sPrism2/2.5/3 chipset. The driver supports a so called Host AP mode, i.e., ittakes care of IEEE 802.11 management functions in the host computerand acts as an access point. This does not require any specialfirmware for the wireless LAN card. In addition to this, it hassupport for normal station operations in BSS and possible also inIBSS. WPA and RSN (WPA2) is supported when used with accompanied tools,wpa_supplicant (WPA/RSN Supplicant) and hostapd (WPA/RSN Authenticator). Allthese programs have been designed for both desktop/laptop computers andembedded systems.
Intersil's station firmware for Prism2 chipset supports a so calledHost AP mode in which the firmware takes care of time critical taskslike beacon sending and frame acknowledging, but leaves othermanagement tasks to host computer driver. This driver implements basicfunctionality needed to initialize and configure Prism2-based cards,to send and receive frames, and to gather statistics. In addition, itincludes an implementation of following IEEE 802.11 functions:authentication (and deauthentication), association (reassociation, anddisassociation), data transmission between two wireless stations,power saving (PS) mode signaling and frame buffering for PSstations. The driver has also various features for developmentdebugging and for researching IEEE 802.11 environments like access tohardware configuration records, I/O registers, and frames with 802.11headers.
When used with a user space daemon, the combination of the Host APdriver and hostapd daemon includes additional features. These includesupport for IEEE 802.1X and dynamic WEP rekeying, RADIUS Accounting,RADIUS-based ACL for IEEE 802.11 authentication, minimal IAPP (IEEE802.11f), WPA, IEEE 802.11i/RSN/WPA2.
LinuxWireless LAN Howto has some useful information about wireless LAN supportin Linux. In addition, it includes information about which cards arePrism2-based (and can thus be used in Host AP mode).
WPA/RSN Supplicant (wpa_supplicant)
More information is available on wpa_supplicant's own page.
Supported WPA/IEEE 802.11i features:
- WPA-PSK ('WPA-Personal')
- WPA with EAP (e.g., with RADIUS authentication server) ('WPA-Enterprise')
- key management for CCMP, TKIP, WEP104, WEP40
- WPA and full IEEE 802.11i/RSN/WPA2
- RSN: PMKSA caching, pre-authentication
Supported drivers:
- Linux drivers that support Linux Wireless Extensions v19 or newer withWPA/WPA2 extensions
- Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3
- Linuxant DriverLoader with Windows NDIS driver supporting WPA
- Agere Systems Inc. Linux Driver (Hermes-I/Hermes-II chipset)
- madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
- ATMEL AT76C5XXx
- Linux ndiswrapper with Windows NDIS driver
- Broadcom wl.o driver
- Intel ipw2100 and ipw2200
- Wired Ethernet drivers
- BSD net80211 layer (e.g., Atheros driver) (FreeBSD 6-CURRENT)
- Windows NDIS drivers (Windows; at least XP and 2000, others not tested)
WPA/RSN/EAP Authenticator (hostapd)
More information is available on hostapd's own page.
Supported WPA/IEEE 802.11i features:
- WPA-PSK ('WPA-Personal')
- WPA with EAP (e.g., with RADIUS authentication server) ('WPA-Enterprise')
- key management for CCMP, TKIP, WEP104, WEP40
- WPA and full IEEE 802.11i/RSN/WPA2
- RSN: PMKSA caching, pre-authentication
Supported drivers:
- Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3
- madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
- Prism54.org (PrismGT)
- BSD net80211 layer (e.g., Atheros driver) (FreeBSD 6-CURRENT)
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Host AP driver
Copyright (c) 2001-2002, SSH Communications Security Corp andJouni Malinen.
Copyright (c) 2002-2007, Jouni Malinen and contributors.
Author: Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>
Host AP utils
Copyright (c) 2002-2005, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>and contributors.
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hostapd
Copyright (c) 2002-2008, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>and contributors.
wpa_supplicant
Copyright (c) 2003-2008, Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>and contributors.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 aspublished by the Free Software Foundation. SeeCOPYINGfor more details. hostapd and wpa_supplicant are alternativelyavailable under BSD license.
Please seeREADMEfor updated documentation of the driver.Please also check FAQ before sending problem reports.
Note!Host AP driver was added into the main kernel tree in Linuxv2.6.14. The version in the kernel tree should be used instead of thisexternal hostap-driver package. The external releases are only forolder kernel versions and all the future development will be in themain kernel tree.
- Latest stable release:
- wpa_supplicant-0.5.10.tar.gz (source code for all versions)
- wpa_supplicant-windows-bin-0.5.10.zip (binaries for Windows)
- Older stable release:
- wpa_supplicant-0.4.11.tar.gz (source code for all versions)
- wpa_supplicant-windows-bin-0.4.11.zip (binaries for Windows)
- Older stable release:
- wpa_supplicant-0.3.11.tar.gz (source code for all versions)
- wpa_supplicant-windows-bin-0.3.11.zip (binaries for Windows)
- Obsolete stable release
(note: 0.2.x branch is not supported anymore - please upgrade to 0.4.x or 0.5.x): - Latest development release:
- wpa_supplicant-0.6.4.tar.gz (source code for all versions)
- wpa_supplicant-windows-bin-0.6.4.zip (binaries for Windows)
- wpa_gui-qt433-windows-dll.zip (Qt4 libraries from wpa_gui/Windows)
- ChangeLog:
- hostap-driver:[development branch][stable branch]
- hostap-utils:[development branch][stable branch]
- hostapd:[development branch][stable branch]
- wpa_supplicant:[development branch][stable branch]
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Wireless Tools for Linux
Please, note that you will need quite recent version of Wireless Toolsto use some features of the Host AP driver. Using thelatestversion of the tools is recommended. Some features might also require latest beta version.
Feedback, comments, mailing list
Any comments, reports on success/failure, ideas for furtherimprovement, feature requests, etc. are welcome at [email protected]Please note, that I often receive more email than I have time to answer.Unfortunately, some messages may not get a reply, but I'll try to gothrough my mail whenever time permits.
There is also a mailing list for Host AP related messages.Since this list has a broader audience, your likelyhood of gettingresponses is higher. This list is recommended for general questionsabout Host AP driver and its development. In addition, I will sendrelease notes to it whenever a new version is available.
The mailing list information and web archive is at http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap.Messages to [email protected] will be delivered to thesubscribers. Please note, that due to large number of spam and virusmessages sent to the list address, the list is configured to acceptmessages only from subscribed addresses. Messages from unsubscribed addressesmay be accepted manually, but their delivery will be delayed.
If you want to make sure your bug report of feature request does notget lost, please report it through the bug tracking system asa new bug/feature request.
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