On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:36:09AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Christoph H?ger wrote: > > This means, I am missing some channels here in good old germany (e.g. 12 > > & 13). Apparently the US domain seems to be a subset of the EU domain, > > so I can not use channels that are prohibited by the EU domain. > > > > So wouldn't it make sense to ask for the current locale and set the > > parameter in /etc/modprobe.d when updating/installing either the kernel > > or module-init-tools? > > > > Locale? hah. What does the language your computer presents text have to do > with where in the world your computer is? Nit-picker... :-) > The channels you've listed are the world regulatory domain, a subset of > all domains which is globally appropriate, and unlikely to cause > problems for roaming users. > > Run > iw reg set CA > to set it for Canada, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 for the appropriate two > letter countrycode. In your case, obviously 'DE'. :) The script I posted takes a timezone like "America/New_York" and uses /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab to map it to an ISO-3166 Alpha2 code. The weak-link would be if someone is using "EST5EDT" or somesuch or is otherwise bypassing system-config-date. Still, it is a cheap first step that probably covers most users most of the time. > NetworkManager can probably set this somehow as well, but I haven't > bothered figuring out how. It probably can and should, but I don't see NM growing such capability in the short term. John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
