On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:44:41AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 14:43 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > 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 > > Yeah, if there's GPS available on the system we can certainly use that > too :) Absolutely, so does this seem to heavy for a distribution to carry? It seems openhand is working on this which makes me believe it should work on mobile devices pretty well. 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
