Activating wireless channels 12 and 13
Marko Vojinovic
vvmarko at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 20:03:37 UTC 2009
This is what I found as generic instructions for the iwl3945 driver:
<quote>
If you are not in the US, more Wifi channels are available (EU: 13 instead of
11). If you cannot see your Wifi, but you know it is there, check if it is on
Channel 12 or 13.
To fix, create /etc/modprobe.d/iwl3945-fix and add the following line: "options
cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU". Reload to the driver for the change to become
active: "modprobe -r iwl3945", then "modprobe iwl3945".
</quote>
However, these instructions are not Fedora-specific and I am not sure how old.
So is this the *proper* way to configure this thing in Fedora 12?
And btw, IIRC during the installation, anaconda asks me for geographical
location (to setup local time or whatever...). If I am somewhere outside US,
could this thing be configured automatically?
I understand that this is not allowed in US, but is the situation as hopeless
as the software patents problem, or can something be done about it?
Finally, I am curious --- if I live in Europe, have wireless channels 12 and
13 active by default on my laptop, and then decide to travel to USA for a
week, am I breaking some law? I mean *unintentionally*, since I might not be
aware of the details of my computer setup? I guess one could ask similar
question wrt strong encryption algorithms and other stuff illegal in US-only...
So what is the story here? :-)
Best, :-)
Marko
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