[arch-general] Wireless userspace tools

[Sujith]

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
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