Re: Wrong regulatory domain being detected

Hi,

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Brenton Schulz wrote:

> I've got a cheap brand of USB key (the box brand is "Connectland", model
> 5510002 wire-cnl-usb-new) and have currently got it working fine with
> the bernios CVS code (downloaded 24th Apr) however the MAC in being
> detected as being french while i'm actually in Australia. This means
> that I'm being limited to channels 10-13. This are the lines from dmesg:
>
> usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 13
> /home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
> /home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: $Id: at76c503.c,v 1.53
> 2004/04/16 19:06:02 jal2 Exp $ compiled Apr 23 2004
> 21:49:13/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: firmware version
> 1.101.0 #86 (fcs_len 4)
> /home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:0d:2f:00:c1:ce,
> regulatory domain France (id 50)
> /home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: registered wlan0
>
> and when i try to set a different channel outside the french range:
>
> /home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: wlan0: channel 6 not allowed
> for domain France
>
> Anyone know how i can make it detect that MAC as an AU one?

I could easily implement an override in the driver but AFAIK the firmware
checks the regdomain as well, restricting the scanned and used channels to
it. I have no idea how to override this. Trying to google for "Connectland
wlan" the first hits are French indeed, e.g.

http://www.hersys.com/cat/produit_idprod_2165.html

If the Win driver restrict the channels as well, I'd send the device back
for exchange/refund.

BTW, what's the valid regdomain for Australia?

/Jörg