Re: Automatic/manual regulatory settings

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 14:43 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:19 +0100, Jan Schneider wrote:
> >> While looking at logs collected for my microcode crash problem I
> >> noticed that cfg80211 loads US regulatory settings.
> >> If I understand the documentation correctly the actual country should
> >> be set either by the AP or the device using cfg80211. Neither seems to
> >> happen, so is it the "correct" way to do this through the
> >> ieee80211_regdom module parameter? And I wonder how this is supposed
> >> to happen "idiot-proof" in the future?
> >
> > In the future it would get set by whatever configures your network
> > connection.  Either system scripts like ifup/ifdown, or configured
> > manually in the config files that ifup/ifdown use, or automatically via
> > NetworkManager based on some setting, or via NetworkManager based on a
> > user-override.
> >
> > One idea I've toyed with for NetworkManager is using the city you select
> > in the GUI Timezone control panel that all desktop environments for
> > timezone selection.  Just a thought.  Or, it could come from a
> > system-wide setting by your sysadmin in /etc, or set on a per-connection
> > basis when you set up the NetworkManager connection for that AP in the
> > NM connection editor.
> 
> I think it'd be nice to leverage all these different possible location
> based hints to help with your location -- and more. I think GeoClue
> does such a thing (works with dbus and all), but I have not yet had
> time to try it.
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue

Yeah, if there's GPS available on the system we can certainly use that
too :)

Dan