hostapd/hostapd/hostapd.8
Jouni Malinen 50b5bf4eda Remove obsolete Prism54.org driver support (driver_prism54.c)
The Prism54.org project seems have been dead for a while and it does not
look like this driver would ever be maintained again. Furthermore, it is
difficult to find a version that would work with the driver_prism54.c
wrapper and there is another driver for these card in the Linux kernel
tree.

The hostapd integration in driver_prism54.c is quite different from the
other driver wrappers and would require major effort to get it cleaned
up. Since there does not seem to be any real users for the cleaned up
version, there does not seem to be justification to spend this effort on
the wrapper. This old code is making it much more difficult to clean up
the driver interface and at this point, the best option seems to be to
remove the driver wrappers. Should someone really still need this, the
old code will continue to be available in hostapd 0.6.x.
2009-12-12 20:52:12 +02:00

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.TH HOSTAPD 8 "April 7, 2005" hostapd hostapd
.SH NAME
hostapd \- IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B hostapd
[\-hdBKtv] [\-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B hostapd
daemon.
.PP
.B hostapd
is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers.
It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
The current version supports Linux (Host AP, madwifi, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).
.B hostapd
is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication.
.B hostapd
supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend,
.BR hostapd_cli ,
is included with
.BR hostapd .
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
For a complete description, run
.BR hostapd
from the command line.
.TP
.B \-h
Show usage.
.TP
.B \-d
Show more debug messages.
.TP
.B \-dd
Show even more debug messages.
.TP
.B \-B
Run daemon in the background.
.TP
.B \-P <PID file>
Path to PID file.
.TP
.B \-K
Include key data in debug messages.
.TP
.B \-t
Include timestamps in some debug messages.
.TP
.B \-v
Show hostapd version.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR hostapd_cli (1).
.SH AUTHOR
hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).