I have had a problem with this old PC since I got it, it's a very early 2000's Dell PC. I'm talking 512mb of RAM, THAT old. It had Windows XP on it, which I wiped and replaced with Kali Linux 1.1.0, 32-bit. This computer happens to be SO old that it has only eth0 and lo interfaces. Since there are no ethernet cables except on our wifi router, I bought a Realtek wifi adapter (in case anyone happens to be advanced in Realtek adapters, it is the RTL 8192 model). After a lot of messing around, I managed to run the driver install.sh, and I am almost certain it worked correctly. I would be completely sure, except when I ran the wpa_supplicant install and the hostapd install, they both exited after only printing their respective config file information, stating that they could not initialise the wlan0 interface (which is what it should be installing). Reading the manual, I noticed that it said that I should copy the supplicant/hostapd to 'the target platform', which I assumed just meant in the same folder. But given that neither are working, I am not sure what target platform means now, and I was wondering if it was critical... and if so, where I should be copying to. If the target platform means nothing, tell me and I will post another question with details from the failed installs. Thanks in advanceEDIT:My guesses are:a) Anywhere on the computer, which would mean nothingb) Root directoryc) In the kernel modules folder, perhaps in the folder containing the wifi driver Either way, here is what the Manual says, bold is what I have done successfully:(1) wpa_supplicant(1-1)unzip wpa_supplicant_hostapd-0.8_rtw_20111118.zip(1-2)cd wpa_supplicant_hostapd-0.8\wpa_supplicant(1-3) vim Makefileadd:CC = mipsel-linux-gcc(1-4)make(1-5)copy wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli to target platform(1-6)copy wpa_0_8.conf file to target platform(1-7)./wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -c wpa_0_8.conf -dd &(1-8)./wps_cli (for wps in Interactive mode)(1-9) > helpwps_pbcwps_pin any 12345678(2) hostapd(1-1)unzip wpa_supplicant_hostapd-0.8_rtw_20111118.zip(1-2)cd wpa_supplicant_hostapd-0.8\hostapd(1-3) vim Makefileadd:CC = mipsel-linux-gcc(1-4)make(1-5)copy hostapd and hostapd_cli to target platform(1-6)copy rtl_hostapd.conf file to target platform(1-7)start hostapd daemon:./hostapd rtl_hostapd.conf -B
copying wpa_supplicant to target platform
drivers;kali linux;wpa supplicant;realtek