On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
