Thomas B,bdchler wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: > > Couldn't we set it as a dep of the wireless tools? That seems like it > > would install for the right people then. Considering you want to shut > > things off in the kernel, this will make some (most? no idea) wireless > > non-functional without this, right? It seems an optdepend of kernel26 > > would be easy to miss To set a new regulatory domain, 'iw' is required. 'iw' should be added to core too. > I think I remember that the wireless stack will fall back to a default > (minimal) set of channels if crda is missing (which is not too different > from the current behaviour). That's right, WORLD regulatory domain would be chosen if CRDA is missing. But it has a limited set of channels than what people were using so far, so expect a rash of 'wireless not working' bugs. :) The best method to accommodate the new regulatory infrastructure would be to set the country code on bootup, with the user's choice stored in /etc/rc.conf. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com
