On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> 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
