On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 PS. Sorry for the quoted text before, i keep replying to dev-public for some reason.
