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

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Theres packages for crda and libnl in AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14856
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21855
& iw in [community]:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19012

Theres also http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21854
whose only reason of existance seemed to be crda.

Greg