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Subject: Re: New Regulatory Domain Api.
From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 03:19 -0600, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:22 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 
> > Does below scenario an expected behaviour?
> > 
> > 0. A system with iwl3945 BG card and iwl4965 AGN card.
> > 1. insmod iwl3945 -> regulatory_hint(, 99, rd) return 0;
> > 2. insmod iwl4965 -> regulatory_hint(, 99, rd2) return -EALREADY;
> > 3. iwl4965 has no A band support!
> 
> Yeah, I think this is expected, and the solution is to install crda and
> iw and set the regulatory domain manually to whatever country you're in
> rather than your cards SKU.

Let's use the solution at this time. Just a notion that the regdomain in
kernel doesn't sort out very well in some circumstance without user
intervention.

Thanks,
-yi