On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Dan McGee <dpmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> Tobias Powalowski schrieb: >>>> >>>> The wireless regulatory stuff has to go as well, right? What is our >>>> upgrade path for this, as most users won't just know they need to >>>> install the new packages (but making them a depend is not correct >>>> either)? optdepends might work here as a warning would be shown in the >>>> pacman output, but I would definitely include this in the news item as >>>> well. >>>> >>>> -Dan >>> >>> Hrm, Thomas some input on this please. All crda and depends should move to >>> core right? >>> Could you post a little summary, how the new stuff works. I use wireless >>> but don't need this regulatory stuff at all. >>> thanks. >> >> Without the regulatory stuff, some default channels will be enabled (like >> 1-11) and the old hardcoded US, JP and EU domains (via the cfg80211_regdom >> module parameter) still work (the latter will be removed upstream in .29). >> >> However, to make the kernel use the correct information, you need crda. That >> is only necessary if you use channels 12-14 or 802.11a, although it would be >> best if everyone would set his regulatory domain so nobody accidently >> transmits on a prohibited channel. >> >> I'd say we add optdepends on crda, wireless won't break for most people >> anyway. After crda is installed, all you need to do is uncomment the right >> regdom in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom and add wireless-regdom to DAEMONS. > > And I'm not sure you even have to add anything to daemons at all- when > I installed these packages on my laptop, the udev rule seemed to take > care of everything and called crda all on its own. > > -Dan >
Both systems booted fine. Signoff both arches.