Anyone with some guidance on this?
Or, is there a more appropriate forum for this question?
On 2/9/20 10:42 AM, PGNet Dev wrote:
> on
>
> uname -rm
> 5.5.2-25.g994cf1f-default x86_64
>
> i'm trying to set my wifi's regulatory domain.
>
> currently, with
>
> cat /etc/modprobe.d/wifi.conf
> options iwlwifi lar_disable=1
> softdep ath pre: cfg80211
> options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=US
>
> cat /etc/modules-load.d/wifi.conf
> iwlwifi
> ath
> cfg80211
>
> lsmod | egrep "ath|cfg"
> ath9k_htc 81920 0
> ath9k_common 20480 1 ath9k_htc
> ath9k_hw 499712 2 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common
> mac80211 991232 4 ath9k_htc,rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
> usbcore 315392 6 ath9k_htc,xhci_hcd,rt2800usb,usbhid,xhci_pci,rt2x00usb
> ath 36864 3 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,ath9k_hw
> cfg80211 835584 6 ath9k_htc,ath9k_common,rt2x00lib,ath,iwlwifi,mac80211
> rfkill 28672 6 rfkill_gpio,cfg80211
>
> it's
>
> iw reg get
> 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)
>
> i want to set it explicitly to = US
>
> crda's apparently no longer the method,
>
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/crda.git
> cat crda/README
> ...
> CRDA is no longer needed as of kernel v4.15 since commit 007f6c5e6eb45
> ("cfg80211: support loading regulatory database as firmware file") added
> support to use the kernel's firmware request API which looks for the
> firmware on /lib/firmware. Because of this CRDA is legacy software for
> older kernels. It will continue to be maintained.
> ...
>
> attempt to SET with `iw` fails
>
> iw reg set --debug US
> not a valid ISO/IEC 3166-1 alpha2
> Special non-alpha2 usable entries:
> 00 World Regulatory domain
>
> boot logs show,
>
> dmesg | egrep "cfg|ath|wlp|wlan|iwl"
> [ 6.817013] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
> [ 6.817976] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
> [ 6.818043] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
> [ 6.835635] iwlwifi: unknown parameter 'lar_disable' ignored
> [ 6.835967] systemd-modules-load[221]: Inserted module 'iwlwifi'
> [ 6.838745] systemd-modules-load[221]: Inserted module 'ath'
> [ 15.210473] usb 1-1.2: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested
> [ 15.210661] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc
> [ 15.401056] rt2800usb 1-1.1:1.0 wlp0s20u1u1: renamed from wlan0
> [ 15.705527] usb 1-1.2: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw, size: 51008
> [ 15.957604] ath9k_htc 1-1.2:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits
> [ 16.240624] ath9k_htc 1-1.2:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.4
> [ 16.240630] ath9k_htc 1-1.2:1.0: FW RMW support: On
> [ 16.240634] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x809c
> [ 16.240635] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code
> [ 16.240637] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
> [ 16.240640] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x52
> [ 16.240642] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CN
> [ 16.240644] ath: Regpair used: 0x52
> [ 16.253506] ath9k_htc 1-1.2:1.0 wlp0s20u1u2: renamed from wlan0
> [ 177.266555] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 4)
> [ 403.015547] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 9)
> [ 456.510042] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 4)
> [ 466.037072] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 4)
> [ 764.111764] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 4)
> [ 916.805596] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 4)
> [ 944.127381] ath: phy1: Short RX data len, dropping (dlen: 4)
>
>
> note,
>
> there's discussion here
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205695
>
> about rm'ing lar_disable options 'vs' being unable to set the reg dom,
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/286258/intel-wireless-7265d-iw-shows-wrong-regulatory-information
>
> not clear what to _do_ abt that, here.
>
> what's the correct/current config+method for setting the wifi intfc's reg domain?
>
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