On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:57:30PM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > 2009/8/7 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:56:43PM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > >> To sum this up then (as I understand things): > >> > >> 1. I am the system administrator (root); > >> 2. I am using a valid (albeit deprecated from 2.6.31) method to tell > >> the wireless infrastructure that I want the regulatory domain set to > >> GB; > >> 3. GB is a valid code; and > >> 4. the wireless infrastructure sets the regulatory domain to CN. > >> 5. in 2.6.30, the wireless infrastructure does what I (the root user) > >> tell it to do. > >> > >> That's a regression in my book. Oh well! I do have the iw and crda > >> applications installed, so I've taken that route of setting the > >> regulatory domain to GB. > > > > Are you actually getting the wrong regulatory rules enforced? Or are > > you merely bothered that it is reporting "CN" instead of "GB"? > > > > I'm not sure whether it's wrong or not. To these dmesg snippets from > my original post look wrong because one of the frequency ranges listed > for CN is outside those listed for GB and one of the CN max_eirp > entries is not preent in the GB list. Whether that is OK or not I > don't know and can't find (lay user) documentation to tell me. > > cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: GB > (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) > (2402000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm) > (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm) > (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm) > (5490000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2700 mBm) > > cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: CN > (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) > (2402000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm) > (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 3000 mBm) It looks like a mismatch to me. Luis, can you sort this out? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
