From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:47:11 -0700
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Regulatory domain
In-Reply-To: <20110316155940.15546.qmail@stuge.se>
References: <AANLkTi=gFFU06cfcdUYjxkQsjaZpmZ+RCnn_iKg_CJno@mail.gmail.com>
	<20110316155940.15546.qmail@stuge.se>
Message-ID: <20110316194711.GA15689@tux>
List-Id: <ath9k-devel.lists.ath9k.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:59:40AM -0700, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Baldomero Coll wrote:
> > Is there a way of overriding regulatory domain
> 
> No.
> 
> 
> > and being able to configure any channel in IBSS mode with no
> > restriciton in the transmission power
> 
> The only option would be to reprogram the reg domain on the card to
> something less restricted. So far there is no utility available for
> this.
> 
> Anything "after" the reg domain stored on card will only limit use of
> the card. Broken? Blame the regulatory bodies, maybe specifically the
> FCC. Doubly broken that FCC mandate non-US citizens? Yeah, it's a
> joke.
> 
> Need to make that utility.

Blindly overwriting EEPROMs is a bad idea, as I have explained before.
You have the freedom to do what you please but essentially you loose
my support completley for anything you ever report :)

  Luis