Re: brcm80211 not setting correct country code?

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 13:30 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 04/30/2011 10:38 AM, Wenceslao González-Viñas wrote:
> > After
> > iw reg set EU
> > I do not get any answer in dmesg log.
> 
> I assume you did this as root or used sudo. You may have to check 
> whether you have the proper udev rules in place. See 
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA#Letting_the_kernel_call_CRDA

They are.

> > and if I do (after)  : iw reg get , I get:
> >
> > country 98:
> > 	(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
> > 	(5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 17)
> > 	(5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS
> > 	(5490 - 5600 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS
> > 	(5650 - 5710 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS
> >
> > So, something is not working properly.
> 
> I get country US (after iw reg set EU). I tried 'iw reg set ES' after 
> that and another message showed up in the log:
> [ 1613.052044] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: EU
> [ 1845.365115] cfg80211: Pending regulatory request, waiting for it to 
> be processed...
> 
> It seems cfg80211 expects CRDA to respond to the country setting for EU. 
> I am not familiar what modules are involved in this usage scenario.

I added 'EU' to wireless-regdb in Debian for backward-compatibility.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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