@jvonau I just came back to this while trawling through my still-open
bug list and had a look at what happens on the desktop. At least on our
Pi desktop images (using NetworkManager), no wifi regulatory domain gets
set at all (at least on my local network). Just in case it made any
difference, I also tried switching on "location services", but there was
no effect on the regulatory domain.

It appears that the effort to make NetworkManager (or more broadly, the
GNOME desktop) location aware stalled some considerable time ago [1] [2]
[3]

[1]: 
http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/developers/GSoC/2009/GeoClue_regulatory/
[2]: 
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA#using_network_manager_to_change_regulatory_domains
[3]: 
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory#automatic_country_discovery

Also, I don't see any option to manually set the regulatory domain in
the UI. Now that crda's gone in jammy, and "iw" isn't seeded on the
desktop image (for the Pi at least; is the PC any different?) there's
effectively no way for the user to set the wifi regulatory domain
(something that's fairly important ... legal stuff and all that) "out of
the box" either via the GUI or via the command line.

I've added the info the jammy release notes, and I'm going to add a few
targets here as this clearly needs some work on several fronts,
presumably netplan for servers and NetworkManager for desktops.

** Also affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: network-manager (Ubuntu Kinetic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: netplan.io (Ubuntu Kinetic)
   Importance: Medium
       Status: Triaged

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