Thomas B,bd(Bchler wrote:
I am actually keeping track of wireless development. iw's functionality is quite limited right now and the wext-based wireless_tools are the way to go for now. I will however bring iw to extra and to core later when it supports more functions.
Also, I'm surprised that wpa_supplicant still uses wext instead of cfg80211. I think that might change in the 0.6 series.
wpa_supplicant has support for nl80211, AFAIK.
CRDA won't be needed until 2.6.28 or 2.6.29. The upcoming 2.6.27 still contains the old regulatory code, and as long as we don't have compat-wireless, we don't need CRDA. I will add this daemon when I start playing with the new regulatory framework.
I am glad they finally do something sane about regulation. When I first started using iwl3945, all 802.11a channels were blocked for me. This is now fixed by setting the "EU" regulatory domain, but the possibilities of having static tables in the kernel are still too limited.
You are right, CRDA will be part of 2.6.28. But compat-wireless has been given a new lease of life, supporting kernels above 2.6.27. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com