On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:19 +0100, Jan Schneider wrote: >> While looking at logs collected for my microcode crash problem I >> noticed that cfg80211 loads US regulatory settings. >> If I understand the documentation correctly the actual country should >> be set either by the AP or the device using cfg80211. Neither seems to >> happen, so is it the "correct" way to do this through the >> ieee80211_regdom module parameter? And I wonder how this is supposed >> to happen "idiot-proof" in the future? > > In the future it would get set by whatever configures your network > connection. Either system scripts like ifup/ifdown, or configured > manually in the config files that ifup/ifdown use, or automatically via > NetworkManager based on some setting, or via NetworkManager based on a > user-override. > > One idea I've toyed with for NetworkManager is using the city you select > in the GUI Timezone control panel that all desktop environments for > timezone selection. Just a thought. Or, it could come from a > system-wide setting by your sysadmin in /etc, or set on a per-connection > basis when you set up the NetworkManager connection for that AP in the > NM connection editor. I think it'd be nice to leverage all these different possible location based hints to help with your location -- and more. I think GeoClue does such a thing (works with dbus and all), but I have not yet had time to try it. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue 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
