Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:58:52 +0100 | From | Arend van Spriel <> | Subject | Re: [cfg80211 / iwlwifi] setting wireless regulatory domain doesn't work. |
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On 12/18/2013 08:50 AM, Pontus Fuchs wrote: > On 2013-12-17 22:49, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: >> >> Indeed, I looked for a crda hook for initramfs-tools but didn't find >> it, so skipped that idea >> for the moment. >> >> So if i combine the two .. it's essentially just a very bad idea to >> compile the wireless stuff in. >> It needs a access to a userland program at module load time, or it >> will block forever. > > The canonical trick to have cfg80211 built in is to execute crda > manually in your boot scripts. This will satisfy the initial request and > resolve the block.
There is a Kconfig option to have the regulatory data built-in the kernel as well. Obviously that makes a regulatory update more difficult.
net/wireless/Kconfig: config CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB bool "use statically compiled regulatory rules database" if EXPERT
Regards, AvS
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