Feature changed by: Kshitij Kulshreshtha (polyconvex) Feature #305301, revision 11 Title: Central Regulatory Domain Agent (for 802.11) openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) Description: The regulatroy domain handling for wireless cards was done by each driver seperately before mac80211/cfg80211. cfg80211 is used to unify the handling of regulatory domains for wireless devices. However cfg80211 depends on the user space configuring the regulatory domain. A user space daemon is currently developed (see [1]). It basically provides the allowed channels for all known regulatory domains. Additionally it would be nice to allow the configuration of the regulatory domain from the Yast network module. [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA Partly based on bnc#392853 Discussion: #1: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) (2009-02-03 12:04:57) I've already packaged crda and wireless-regdb in my buildservice project home:hschaa:CRDA. #2: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) (2009-02-09 11:37:20) What we additionally need for this feature is some integration with Yast or NetworkManager such that the user is able to set the regulatory domain (maybe based on the selected time zone). A command line tool for setting the domain is already available (iw) but needs to be updated. #3: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) (2009-02-09 16:09:28) (reply to #2) Just submitted an update for Factory. #4: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) (2009-02-10 10:59:40) (reply to #2) wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 already has support for setting the regulatory domain. We'll get that with the next version update. #5: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) (2009-02-10 13:40:25) (reply to #2) iw, crda and wireless-regdb are part of factory now + #6: Kshitij Kulshreshtha (polyconvex) (2009-03-25 11:53:33) + Sometimes on a short visit abroad a user might not bother to update + their timezone information on their laptop but still want to use a + wireless network. In this case setting the regulatory domain based on + timezone is not the right thing to do. Why not let the networkmanager + applet ask the user himself to provide the country as a part of the + dialog to setup the network? (A map similar to the yast timezone + selector built into KNetworkManager?) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305301