> Op 19 jan. 2019, om 20:28 heeft Pol Vangheluwe <[email protected]>
> het volgende geschreven:
>
>
> Google brought me to Linux Wireless. The regulatory database contains all
> national regulations about WiFi signals and can be downloaded form that site.
> The site also hosts crda (Central Regulatory Domain Agent) and the following
> can be found in the README of that package:
>
> CRDA is no longer needed as of kernel v4.15 since commit 007f6c5e6eb45
> ("cfg80211: support loading regulatory database as firmware file") added
> support to use the kernel's firmware request API which looks for the
> firmware on /lib/firmware. Because of this CRDA is legacy software for
> older kernels. It will continue to be maintained.
>
> My kernel is 4.15.7, so this may explain the error line in kern.log.
> The problem is solved by downloading wireless-regdb (no install needed) and
> copying reg* to /lib/firmware.
>
> pvg
It’s lonely here at BLFS, so I keep mailing with myself…
I have the same problem on my iMac G4, running LFS-8.1-systemd. The solution
is also the same:
pol [ ~ ]$ git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git
pol [ ~ ]$ cd wireless-regdb
pol [ ~ ]$ sudo cp -v regu* /lib/firmware
pol [ ~ ]$ cd ..
pol [ ~ ]$ rm -rf wireless-regdb
My iMac G5 (64bit) is currently broken, it is also running LFS-8.1-systemd, but
I have no journal logs to check if the same problem also popped up on this
system.
The following questions remain:
1. am I really the only one in the LFS universum that got this error report?
Possibly due to a very particular kernel setting?
2. should the installation of the regulatory database be added to the
instructions for wpa-supplicant?
3. is iwconfig indeed obsolete (as pretended by wireless.wiki.kernel.org) and
should it be replaced in BLFS by iw?
pvg
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