Re: [cfg80211 / iwlwifi] setting wireless regulatory domain doesn't work.

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>]

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 7:38:50 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Sander Eikelenboom
> <linux@eikelenboom.it> wrote:
>>
>> Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 6:53:07 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> The best way to address all this is by automatic region awareness and
>>> doing the right thing on devices, this however requires good
>>> architecture / calibration data  / etc and all that needs to be
>>> verified by the system integrators, and finally they need to be
>>> certified. If you want to hack your firmware and software go at it,
>>> just be aware there are reasons for things.
>>
>> Well the general problem seems to be "we don't trust the user" so we FORCE him to the lowest
>> common denominator (without a way to overrule that) so he is forced to operate *well* within the law.

> Its simply stupid to have the user be involved, period, the fact that
> a user would be involved should only be for testing or helping
> compliance for a busted device, development, research and obviously
> hacking. Linux allows all these but by default a device with firmware
> and a custom regdomain that will barf if you try to use a channel that
> is not allowed is a restriction in firmware. Feel free to reverse
> engineer that if you don't like it but it just won't be supported or
> go upstream. Now, the common denominator is generally optimized for
> best performance as well so you shouldn't have to do anything, and for
> APs -- this is typically carefully crafted for a region, also highly
> optimized.

>>>>> It doesn't seem like you are getting your original requests getting
>>>>> processed, so I don't think CRDA is passing it. Can you verify running
>>>>> from CRDA code:
>>>>
>>>> They don't get processed unless i remove the return from the code as i indicated.
>>>> If i remove that return it processes the request.
>>>>
>>>>> ./regdbdump /usr/lib/crda/regulatory.bin
>>>>
>>>> Although it's in a different location on Debian, /lib/crda/regulatory.bin
>>>> the dump seems fine.
>>
>>> OK thanks. Can you send a patch of what exact change you made, it was
>>> unclear from the paste you made.
>>
>>> diff -u file.c.orig file.c
>>
>> Well i just did a pull from wireless-next, to try Avinash Patil's patch.
>> net/wireless/reg.c had already changed much so i couldn't apply his patch without.
>>
>> With his patch it sets the regulatory domain, although as now expected i still can not use channels 12 and 13 yet,
>> probably due to those firmware restrictions.

> Its unclear what results you got, and yeah if the device is restricted
> then its just the fw telling the driver its channels and you can't use
> them. That's it. You won't be able to override information then unless
> you hack the firmware

Ping ?

Is there anymore information you need to *fix* the problem ?

>   Luis