Re: [PATCH] crda: use strerror() to report error code verbosely

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:41:21AM -0800, Davide Pesavento wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:20, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Quoting "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>:
> >
> >> You don't need to build this unless you want to define your own rules.
> >
> > I see.
> >
> >> And if you do and want to use the signature stuff you need to copy the
> >> RSA public key into pubkeys/ directory of CRDA. Did you try that?
> >
> > No, I just wanted to install the most current regulatory database.  Perhaps
> > the error message should be more clear.
> >
> > With both CONFIG_CFG80211_REG_DEBUG, CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY enabled
> > and modular mac80211 and cfg80211, regdomain is set correctly from udev:
> >
> > [    7.642548] cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
> > [    7.642551] cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
> > [    8.697261] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US
> >
> > However, changing it to anything doesn't work:
> >
> > [root@ct proski]# COUNTRY=00 crda
> > Failed to set regulatory domain: -22
> > [root@ct proski]# COUNTRY=US crda
> > Failed to set regulatory domain: -22
> > [root@ct proski]# COUNTRY=DE crda
> > Failed to set regulatory domain: -22
> > [root@ct proski]#
> >
> > Maybe it can only be set once?  But then -EBUSY would be more reasonable.
> >
> 
> AFAIK, you have to use `iw reg set <country>` to manually change it.

Affirmative, or you can use wpa_supplicant from the git tree and add to your conf:

COUNTRY=US

  Luis