On 11/25/23 05:24, Sadeep Madurange wrote:
Greetings all,
Recently I had an issue with connecting a 5GHz AP, and as Jaron
correctly pointed out, the issue was with the regdomain. The problem I'm
having now is the regdomain spontaneously changes between reboots.
I'm in Singapore and I bought the laptop in Singapore. I am certain that
my hardware/firmware supports 5GHz networks. Following Arch Wiki [1], I
installed the wireless-regdb package and uncommented
WIRELESS_REGDOM="SG" line in the /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom file.
Things were working fine for a couple days after I made the changes. But
then, sometimes, when I reboot, I see the regdomain changes to ID (I
guess for Indonesia). I checked that ID is commented out in
/etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom.
I recorded the output of "iw reg get" both when it is working and when
it is not. When it's working, the output is:
global
country 00: DFS-UNSET
(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A)
(2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5170 - 5250 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5250 - 5330 @ 80), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5490 - 5730 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5735 - 5835 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
(57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A)
phy#0 (self-managed)
country SG: DFS-UNSET
(2402 - 2437 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
(2422 - 2462 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
(2447 - 2482 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
...
When it's not working, the output is
global
country 00: DFS-UNSET
(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A)
(2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5170 - 5250 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5250 - 5330 @ 80), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5490 - 5730 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5735 - 5835 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
(57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A)
phy#0 (self-managed)
country ID: DFS-UNSET
(2402 - 2437 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
(2422 - 2462 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
(2447 - 2482 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
(5735 - 5815 @ 20), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ
I have been using this machine for more than 2 years, and have been
connecting to 5GHz band fine in the past. This behavior is almost
certainly new. I first ran into this, I think, on November 14, 2023.
Appreciate any help!
Hello Sadeep,
Not being an expert I noticed that the output of iw reg I get is
different from yours.
I have in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom the country code set to 'NL'
(uncommented in wireles-regdom).
$ iw reg get
global
country NL: DFS-ETSI
(2400 - 2483 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)
(5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW
(5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), NO-OUTDOOR, DFS, AUTO-BW
(5470 - 5725 @ 160), (N/A, 26), (0 ms), DFS
(5725 - 5875 @ 80), (N/A, 13), (N/A)
(5945 - 6425 @ 160), (N/A, 23), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR
(57000 - 66000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)
phy#0 (self-managed)
country EU: DFS-UNSET
(2402 - 2437 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS,
NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
(2422 - 2462 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ
...
As you can see that in 'global' my country code has been set correctly
and wpa_cli reports freq=5500.
For the record I use NetworkManager to handle wifi connections.
Regards, ~Zerro
