Re: iwlwifi/AX210: country AU maps to ROW and omits common Australian 5 GHz channels 36-48
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:13:56 UTC
The updated patch that Bjoern supplied works for non DFS channels. I've been experimenting with getting the DFS channels working. On 6/15/26 08:27, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2026, Tamás Nagy wrote: > > Hi, > >> I am new to this, so apologies if this is a duplicate (I checked but >> not sure if checked right) >> >> On FreeBSD 15 with Intel AX210 using iwlwifi, setting country AU >> results in: >> >> regdomain ROW country AU >> >> The resulting channel list omits common Australian 5 GHz channels >> 36-48 and only exposes 5 GHz channels 149, 153, 157, and 161. >> >> Using country US regdomain FCC exposes channel 36 and allows >> association to an AP on channel 36. >> >> Attempting country AU regdomain ETSI still falls back to ROW. >> >> This appears to be an incomplete or incorrect AU regulatory-domain >> mapping, or a failure to apply a non-ROW regdomain for AU. > > yes, known. > > There is a patch linked from: > https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2026-March/004152.html > > > you can try; if you do not have sources you can apply it directly to > /etc/regdomain.xml (make a backup copy before that). > > It then lists the create args for rc.conf. > > This is not an official solution but a hack for now. > > Let us know if it helps, > /bz >