[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libnl 1.1-1, iw 0.9.7-1, crda 0.9.5-1

[Andreas Radke]

Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:11:32 +0100
schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:

> With 2.6.28, the new wirless regulatory infrastructure is there. The 
> above packages are in extra (libnl) or testing (iw, crda). If we want 
> proper wireless support, we need these packages in core. It works
> like this:
> 
> - Install crda
> - Uncomment the right country code in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom
> - Add wireless-regdom to your rc.conf DAEMONS and run 
> /etc/rc.d/wireless-regdom start
> 
> The kernel will now know on which frequencies you are allowed to
> send. Without this, you should only be able to access a small number
> of channels.
> 
> The cfg80211_regdom kernel module option will be removed in 2.6.29
> and should not be used anymore.
> 

tested. DE profile channel get activated. signoff x86_64.

-Andy