#16862: faulty regdomains: Follup to #16818, #9678
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: Barrier Breaker (trunk)
Component: base | Version: Trunk
system | Keywords: ETSI WORLD US AT DE EU channel 12
Resolution: | 13 14
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Comment (by jogo):
Replying to [comment:4 anonymous]:
> Opinions? My 5ct: the whole thing is "broken" already upstream, not only
in OpenWRT.
>
> An example: I get a TP-Link in Germany, the vendor-FW just overides the
allowed channels, with any Linux I know, I have to apply (again and
again!) crude "patches" to get ch12/13.
> As otherwise it falls back to US, "World" (or in this case CN) which is
programmed in some eeprom and simply wrong..
Correct, this is the main cause for channels 12/13 being unavailable for
many non US devices with !OpenWrt.
> I know, this is (regulatory/legal issues) pretty tricky (as DFS is) but
when I'm compiling an image as "root" I should have the choice to decide
wether I know what I'm doing here and which frequencies I'm allowed to
use.
> I'd compare anybody building OpenWRT with an amateur radio-operator: you
can do anything, your just liable for the results.
>
> So please give us an option, to "just fix it", dont make it default but
the current behavior is very, very annoying.
This option already exists, CONFIG_ATH_USER_REGD - "Force Atheros drivers
to respect the user's regdomain settings". If you build your own image you
can enable it and force a country then.
But for regulatory reasons this is not enabled for !OpenWrt provided
images (snapshots and releases), which is what most complaints are about.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16862#comment:6>
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