Re: iwlwifi/AX210: country AU maps to ROW and omits common Australian 5 GHz channels 36-48

From: Ben Hutton <ben_at_benhutton.com.au>
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
>