On 2/2/19 10:43 AM, Pol Vangheluwe via blfs-support wrote:
Op 19 jan. 2019, om 20:28 heeft Pol Vangheluwe
<[email protected] <mailto:[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 <http://wireless.wiki.kernel.org>) and should
it be replaced in BLFS by iw?
pvg
Can you try using packages out of BLFS SVN, or wait for the new release
on March 1st? I have a PowerPC Mac, but it's not an iMac - it's a
PowerMac G4 with the Airport card. It's unfortunately not high on my
priority list though, with updates in BLFS taking priority for me. I
have analyzed your reports though, and am trying to reproduce them.
In BLFS SVN, we do have iw.
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