"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> But... isn't the modifying of the regulatory.bin (the US part of it) >> to include channels valid in e.g. Europe breaking the (US) rules? > > Not if you sign off on it, which is exactly why the whole singing > thing was invented. You would do this if say, you sell an AP and you > verify and tested regulatory compliance against a different regulatory > region. So what exactly do I change? Can the regulatory.bin change the default country? Remember I need to be compliant to the US freq sets as well - when the regdomain is set to US. IOW I can't allow the user operating the device to set e.g. channel 12 when the user selects country=US (so there is a big difference between country 0=US and the real country=US). > country code programmed to 0 is defined by Atheros documentation to be > in the "US". But the driver says: ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a ath: Country alpha2 being used: US ath: Regpair used: 0x3a At least for the driver 0 doesn't mean US, it means "default country". Perhaps the meaning of "default country" depends on maybe location of the hw and/or sw manufacturer? Then maybe what I really need to do is substituting "EU" as the default country and enforcing EU restrictions, even when the country selected by the user is outside EU (e.g. enforcing EU+US in US)? And when the user gets a card with country=US (not 0), the EU restictions would be dropped (when physically in USA)? I think this all reduces to the meaning of country=0 for cards sold (in this case) in Europe (and maybe manufactured here). If the driver said "EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 = US" I'd return the cards to the manufacturer, simple (realistically they'd fix the EEPROM instead). -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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
