brcm80211 not setting correct country code?

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

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Wenceslao González-Viñas wrote:
[...]
> [  330.205983] brcm80211: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
> [  330.212186] brcm80211 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> [  330.212195] brcm80211 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [  330.268237] Found chip type AI (0x13814313)
> [  330.271328] Changing max_res_mask to 0xffff
> [  330.271330] Changing min_res_mask to 0x200d
> [  330.277446] Applying 4313 WARs
> [  330.278330] wlc_bmac_attach:: deviceid 0x4727 nbands 1 board 0x51a macaddr: 88:25:2c:4e:9e:34
> [  330.283578] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
> [  330.285363] wl_set_hint: Sending country code US to MAC80211
> [  330.285371] wl0: Broadcom BCM43xx 802.11 MAC80211 Driver (1.82.8.0) (Compiled at 04:19:31 on Apr  7 2011)
> [  330.365121] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> ----------------------
> 
> By the way, before I used 'modprobe cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU' .  
> Perhaps the problem comes from that and line (dmesg) 330.285363 ?  I  
> need channel 13 ...
[...]

I asked where the device was purchased:

> In Spain (PC - City company). It is a Dell Inspiron M101z (service tag  
> CHL0SM1) . BTW, in Windows 7, it worked perfectly. But I removed it  
> installing Debian Wheezy.
[...]

I looked at the driver source code and there is certainly an attempt to
use a country code from NVRAM.  But maybe it hasn't actually been read
from NVRAM at the point this is done.  'US' seems to be the default if
the country code is blank.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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