> It could be maybe added to NetworkManager, if somebody sends a > patch. But it's not actually clear to me that this is really > NetworkManager's task. Maybe it is, but what are the arguments for > that?
I could be glib, and say "because the kernel says so [1]". However, I suspect that's not a great reason :) [1]: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA#using_network_manager_to_change_regulatory_domains A more complete argument would be: it appears that, where possible, wifi region selection is handled automatically by interpreting information from the AP's beacon. However, that appears to be sparsely implemented (at best) and in the (extremely common) event that an AP *doesn't* advertise its region, it's up to the user to manage this themselves (where/when needed; as noted above, in 2.4GHz setups this usually doesn't matter that much). All the underlying pieces are in place for the user to do so. Nothing is lacking in wpa-supplicant regarding this (iwd does lack a direct option for the wifi region but it appears "use ieee80211_regdom or iw to override the automatic selection" is the answer there), so it's "simply" a matter of exposing this configuration via their preferred UI. Command line users already have the tools to do this (iw), although they notably lack a persistence mechanism for now. But GUI users have ... nothing. No means of querying, adjusting, or persisting this setting. Why NetworkManager? This setting could arguably go under "Language and Region". It is quite literally a region setting after all. And I'm still of the opinion that, at least initially, it should be set from the region selection during first-time setup. But consider the debugging scenario: I've travelled from the UK to Germany and, in the place I'm working, I'm having trouble with wifi connectivity or performance. What settings do I look at first? The wifi settings, almost certainly. If I were to see that my wifi region was "unset" or "UK" I'd likely adjust that to "DE" and see if that fixes things. To me at least, it does seem to make sense for this to go under the wifi settings (which are presumably the purview of NetworkManager?). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1951586 Title: Need option to specify wifi regulatory domain Status in cloud-init: Invalid Status in netplan: New Status in NetworkManager: Unknown Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in netplan.io source package in Jammy: Triaged Status in network-manager source package in Jammy: Incomplete Status in netplan.io source package in Kinetic: Triaged Status in network-manager source package in Kinetic: Incomplete Bug description: It would be nice if netplan offered an option to specify the wifi regulatory domain (country code). For devices such as the Raspberry Pi you are currently advertising that users can simply setup Ubuntu Server headless by putting the wifi configuration details in cloudinit/netplan's "network-config" on the FAT partition of the SD card: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-raspberry-pi#3-wifi-or-ethernet But an option to set the wifi country code there does not seem to exist, so may not work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1951586/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
