wireless in 2.6.26 considered bad for europeans

[pvaneynd]

After upgrading to 2.6.26 I could not associate with my AP anymore. After searching I noticed that the amount of channels reported by iwlist wlan0 channel had changed. And the channel that my AP was using (13) just disappeared.

I openeded a bug with the iwl people and the end result is: in 2.6.25 the card selected the region for the wireless, in 2.6.26 the cfg80211 system is doing so and the default is 'US'.

So if you are in Europe you need to add a file /etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211-region with as contents:

options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU

Comments

why?

[(Anonymous)]

Why did they do that? It's imho a major regression, that you also need to fiddle with /etc/modprobe.d/ configuration just to get wireless working.

Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

This page has been open in my browser for ages.. just got to use it!
Thanks.