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Bug#927710: ath10k locks to regulatory domain US on ACPI platforms

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Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics

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Mar 4, 2020, 3:50:02 AM3/4/20
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See
https://medium.com/@renaudcerrato/how-to-build-your-own-wireless-router-from-scratch-part-3-d54eecce157f
as explanation and solution

Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics

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Mar 4, 2020, 4:00:02 AM3/4/20
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The country code is not read from ACPI but from the EEPROM of the
WiFi-card (0x0 "World Regulatory Domain" by default).

Salvatore Bonaccorso

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May 29, 2021, 8:30:05 AM5/29/21
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Hi,

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 09:48:17PM +0200, Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics wrote:
> Package: linux-image
> Version: 4.19.28-2
>
> The ath10k 802.11 driver reads the country code for the radio regulatory domain from the ACPI table.
> If it can't get a valid value it locks to US regulatory domain which is wrong for most countries.
> This makes Atheros devices in master mode unusable on ACPI devices in most countries.
>
> Sven Gottschall suggested on ath10k mailing-list to return -EOPNOTSUPP in function
> ath10k_mac_get_wrdd_regulatory(struct ath10k *ar, u16 *rd) in file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c to solve this.
>
>
> static int ath10k_mac_get_wrdd_regulatory(struct ath10k *ar, u16 *rd)
> {
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> }

Was there a conclusion upstream?

Regards,
Salvatore

Debian Bug Tracking System

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Nov 11, 2022, 10:40:06 AM11/11/22
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> forwarded -1 https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/2ab7cc1d-f756-ba3c...@newmedia-net.de/#t
Bug #927710 [src:linux] ath10k locks to regulatory domain US on ACPI platforms
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and subject line Re: Bug#927710: ath10k locks to regulatory domain US on ACPI platforms
has caused the Debian Bug report #927710,
regarding ath10k locks to regulatory domain US on ACPI platforms
to be marked as done.

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Salvatore Bonaccorso

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As this looks is not going to change in upstream, I'm closing this
downstream bug about it as well.

Regards,
Salvatore
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