Re: [cfg80211 / iwlwifi] setting wireless regulatory domain doesn't work.

From: Sander Eikelenboom
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 12:01:07 EST



Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 5:34:27 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Luis,
> I have seen that hint during regulatory init still has request processed set to false. This results into further request set to pending. I have sent a patch for the same last week. Please have a look- I think issue faced by me is similar to what Sander is same.
> Thanks,
> Avinash.

Hi Avinash,

Could you send me the patch (or a link to it), i can't find it on the linux-wireless list.

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Sander


> On Dec 11, 2013 9:14 PM, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Sander Eikelenboom
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since i haven't got a response to this yet and after having the troubled machine back:
>> The problem is still present in linux 3.13-rc3
>
> Keep in mind regulatory hints for Intel or Atheros cards do nothing
> other than help compliance further given that the cards already have
> their own regulatory data, the user input / hint is only going to
> reduce the card's channels further. That said the fact that you are
> not seeing a regulatory domain being set is an issue provided you have
> CRDA installed or use CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB. Keep in mind
> that the latest version of wireless-regdb had a signature issue
> reported by users and not sure if that is cleared yet, so that would
> also prevent the wireless-regdb being read even if CRDA was present.
> To rule that out try putting the db.txt into net/wireless/db.txt and
> compile with CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB for now.
>
> Then send the dmesg output, no need for all that fluffy intel debug
> log as its not useful in this case.
>
>   Luis
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