Subject: Re: Automatic/manual regulatory settings
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:51:23 -0500
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On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:19 +0100, Jan Schneider wrote:
> While looking at logs collected for my microcode crash problem I  
> noticed that cfg80211 loads US regulatory settings.
> If I understand the documentation correctly the actual country should  
> be set either by the AP or the device using cfg80211. Neither seems to  
> happen, so is it the "correct" way to do this through the  
> ieee80211_regdom module parameter? And I wonder how this is supposed  
> to happen "idiot-proof" in the future?

In the future it would get set by whatever configures your network
connection.  Either system scripts like ifup/ifdown, or configured
manually in the config files that ifup/ifdown use, or automatically via
NetworkManager based on some setting, or via NetworkManager based on a
user-override.

One idea I've toyed with for NetworkManager is using the city you select
in the GUI Timezone control panel that all desktop environments for
timezone selection.  Just a thought.  Or, it could come from a
system-wide setting by your sysadmin in /etc, or set on a per-connection
basis when you set up the NetworkManager connection for that AP in the
NM connection editor.

Dan