RFC: automagically set wireless regulatory domain in cfg80211

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Mon Mar 2 15:45:23 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:36:09 -0500
Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Christoph H?ger wrote:
> > This means, I am missing some channels here in good old germany
> > (e.g. 12 & 13). Apparently the US domain seems to be a subset of
> > the EU domain, so I can not use channels that are prohibited by the
> > EU domain. 
> > 
> > So wouldn't it make sense to ask for the current locale and set the
> > parameter in /etc/modprobe.d when updating/installing either the
> > kernel or module-init-tools?
> > 
> 
> Locale? hah. What does the language your computer presents text have
> to do with where in the world your computer is?
> 
> The channels you've listed are the world regulatory domain, a subset
> of all domains which is globally appropriate, and unlikely to cause
> problems for roaming users.
> 
fun problem

you can use geoip to find out where you are
... but that only works AFTER you have an internet connection ;-)




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