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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:43:01 -0800
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Subject: Re: Automatic/manual regulatory settings
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>,
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

I think it'd be nice to leverage all these different possible location
based hints to help with your location -- and more. I think GeoClue
does such a thing (works with dbus and all), but I have not yet had
time to try it.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue

  Luis