Re: wpa_supplicant won't compile with nl80211 [and pcap] enabled

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On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 04:55:11PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:13:05AM -0500, jrun wrote:
> > it will compile if i disable pcap. so to summarise:
> > 
> > nl80211 + pcap won't compile
> > nl80211 - pcap will  compile
> 
> It looks like CONFIG_L2_PACKET=pcap case was not updated when
> l2_packet_init_bridge() was added. The patch below fixes this.
> 
> Do you have a specific reason for using libpcap/libdnet
> (CONFIG_L2_PACKET=pcap) instead of the default l2_packet_linux.c
> implementation (direct use of Linux packet sockets)? 

not really; i just stumbled upon this. i though someone would be
interested.

> libdnet is not exactly very actively maintained package 

i that case i will no use it on my systems. thanks for the info though and
sorry for the trouble.


jrun

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