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

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 15:37:33 EST 2009


On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> 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.

All look good here. When you move them, the 'iw' package in community
should die.

-Dan


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