Re: i3stats depends on wireless_tools, causing "firmware load for regulatory.db failed" w/o wireless-regdb

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> From: Dave M. via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sun Aug 12 20:37:03 CEST 2018
> To: <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave M. <davemorgan353@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  i3stats depends on wireless_tools, causing "firmware load for regulatory.db failed" w/o wireless-regdb
> 
> 
> > On 8/12/18 2:54 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote:
> >> On 12 August 2018 at 01:48, David C. Rankin
> >> <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Archdevs,
> >>>
> >>>    There seems to be a funny depends (or missing depends) issue for 
> >>> *some*
> >>> systems without wireless that have i3status installed.
> >>>
> >>>    This appears to be because i3stats depends on wireless_tools, 
> >>> which during
> >>> boot triggers an attempt
> >> I don't see anything in the wireless_tools package that would trigger 
> >> on boot.
> >> there are no udev rules or systemd services.
> >
> > Out of curiosity I checked my journalctl boot logs and this is what I 
> > see:
> >
> >  kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
> >  kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db 
> > failed with error -2
> >  kernel: cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
> >  kernel: cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for 
> > regulatory database
> 
> It's been generating these entries since July 20th for me.

Install https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/wireless-regdb/

It's only for limiting wifi power, safely to ignore.

Yours sincerely

G. K.




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