On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:32:47PM -0800, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote: > On 01/06/09 00:45, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > >> On Monday 05 January 2009, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote: > >> > >>> On 01/05/09 21:08, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >>> > >>> The problem isn't there for the bits that Ivo sent, as the rt2500 devices don't support the a band. > >>> > >> For rt2500pci and rt2500usb there are chipsets which support 5GHz (they are rare, but they do exist), > >> comments for the Ralink drivers indicate they simply didn't add the regulatory domain definitions yet. > >> > > > > Based on the documentation from the EEPROM for all devices I read that its recommended > > that the EEPROM *not be relied on for the regulatory domain*, instead it recommends the > > windows registry be used. > > > > Based on tests for the devices with only one band, do are you seeing an actual regulatory > > domain in the EEPROM? > > > > To deal with the issue of having two separate EEPROM values for a regulatory domain > > and since the documentation indicates to not rely on it I would advise to allow users > > to be compliant by selecting the country they are in. wpa_supplicant has support for > > selecting country now, and so does iw. Eventually I see Network Manager letting users > > select the country. But you guys are the maintainers and developers so you will know > > better. > > > > My tests indicate that there are devices out there that have this > information set in the EEPROM. Based on tests with my own patch, and my > own devices, I have been able to determine the following: > > 1. rt2400pci --> don't know, don't own a rt2400pci device. > 2. rt2500pci --> don't know, don't own a rt2500pci device anymore. > 3. rt2500usb --> my e-tech device (not sure which type; the device > doesn't say it) has an actual domain set for the bg band. > 4. rt61pci --> my Sitecom WL151 device does not contain actual domain > information. > 5. rt73usb --> my Sitecom WL113-002 device does contain actual domain > information, and the codes for the bg band and a band are the same. > 6. rt2800pci --> my Sitecom WL182 device does contain actual domain > information, and the codes for the bg band and a band are the same. > 7. rt2800usb --> my Sitecom WL181 device does contain actual domain > information, and the codes for the bg band and a band are the same. > > So, there are devices out there that do contain "meaningful" regulatory > information. > > Luis, the definitions for the a-band EEPROM codes only give the channel > numbers, it doesn't indicate a real "country". Is there any way we can > check whether these sets of channels are actually consistent with the > regulations of specific countries? You can help contribute to the wireless-regdb and check that the valid channels apply there. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
