Johannes Berg wrote:
If you're in the EU, I contributed a fix that has not yet made it into
the iwlwifi code as it is under review (the whole regulatory aspect is
difficult, there are so many caveats!).
Technically, it's cfg80211 code; the reason that it's not in yet is that
I'm unsure about the legal situation of the ETSI and the national
bodies, it seems to me that the ultimate decision is done by the
national bodies and last I heard France had quite different restrictions
than Germany, for example.
Does anyone have that info? I can dig up the info for Germany easily
(the "Frequenznutzungsplan" is available on the regulatory agency web
site as pdf)
Further to my previous comment, here is another press release:
http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=8571&L=1&tx_gsactualite_pi1[uid]=214&tx_gsactualite_pi1[annee]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[theme]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[motscle]=WLAN%20Wifi&tx_gsactualite_pi1[backID]=2122&cHash=48ad69deb0
Indicating that all 100 departements now allow the same conditions as
those applied to the 58 listed in the previous document.
Oh, and:
http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=8571&L=1&tx_gsactualite_pi1[uid]=944&tx_gsactualite_pi1[annee]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[theme]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[motscle]=WLAN%20Wifi&tx_gsactualite_pi1[backID]=2122&cHash=15247b0fd6
has some diagrams showing this and detailing some more information about
5GHz and overseas French territories.
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Brian
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