Re: Experimental regdomain.xml update

On 2025-04-27 11:26, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi Bjoern. Thanks for all the work you're doing here!
I have the time to devote to this to perform a complete rewrite
for you. So as to free some of your time for other things. Would
you consider the Linux wireless-regdb to be the defacto on this?
Or should other sources also be considered to better reconcile?

Thanks again.

--Chris

Hi,
> 
> after having done multiple countries by hand I sat down and wrote the
> hack of a perl script and used the Linux wireless-regdb db.txt file as
> input.
> 
> This "explodes" the regdomain to countries only so there's no more FCC
> or ETSI in there;  there's also some other bits missing as I only did
> 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands so far.  SKUs are also gone.  The DEBUG entry is
> missing.
> 
> I have no idea if or how much I got it right.  I tried to resolve
> AUTO-BW for larger channel widths (so that we do not lose a few 160Mhz
> channels) but I am sure I missed subtleties.
> 
> You can fetch an initial experimental snapshot at:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~bz/wireless/regdomain-20250427.xml
> (md5: f3a6497490ae8bd615e1d536e941a2f6)
> 
> Please review your country data and give it a try;  especially if you
> are in a country which wasn't updated in a decade or longer...
> 
> After manually putting the file in as /etc/regdomain.xml (make a copy of
> the original first!) you will need to
> (1) ifconfig wlan0 down
> (2) ifconfig wlan0 country <00> regdomain <00>
> (3) ifconifg wlan0 up
> 
> Then you can check:
> 
> ifconfig -v wlan0 list countries
> ifconfig -v wlan0 list regdomain
> ifconfig -v wlan0 list channels
> 
> Lots of health,
> Bjoern
> 
> FAQ:
> Q: This is great!  How can I keep it?
> A: By manually making sure you re-install it or not overwriting it
>    with etcupdate.
> A: Also make sure to make your regdomain/country entries permanent
>    (in rc.conf or wpa_supplicant.conf).
> 
> Q: is this going to be the new format?
> A: no, this is likely not going to solve all our problems, like the
>    original db.txt also cannot represent everything.
> 
> Q: Things no longer work.  What do I do?
> A: First install the regdomain.xml you saved a copy of or grab one
>    from the freebsd repository source tree and do the down/up dance
>    again.
> A: The please email me with the output of the above ifconfig commands
>    and a detailed description of your problem,
> 
> Q: Regulatory information is wrong for my country.  What do I do?
> A: Check upstream first.  If it is correct there let me know as that
>    means I need to fix the hack of a perl script.
> A: Otherwise? Good question.  In theory we should get it fixed
>    upstream but there is no worklfow yet given this is experimental.
>    Let us know and if you want please also submit it upstream
>    yourself as you are more likely to understand legal documents
>    in your language.
> 
> Q: my country name changed - why?  It's not correct!
> A: This is based on the UN list as quoted in the top comment of the
>    file.  I did not review it for anything but the three problems I
>    hit.  Please don't start a flame war.  Just drop me a private
>    email and I'll put the old entry back in for now.

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