[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 12:47 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

PS. Sorry for the quoted text before, i keep replying to dev-public
for some reason.