setting the country from rc.conf

[John Hay]

Hi,

I'm trying out 9.0 Beta on an Avila ARM board with Atheros wifi cards and
need to set the country code. How do one go about it in rc.conf? I have tried
a few ways, but have not been successful.

##################
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode adhoc"
ifconfig_wlan0="country ZA channel 108 ssid mesh bssid 02:02:ca:fe:12:34 -bgscan"
ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 auto_linklocal"
ipv6_prefix_wlan0="fd9c:6829:597c:10"
##################

While booting, I see this:
##################
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:02:6f:34:21:cb
ifconfig: unknown/undefined channel number 108 flags 0x0
##################

Ifconfig after booting looks like this:
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broken-9# ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:02:6f:34:21:cb
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a <adhoc>
        status: running
broken-9# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:02:6f:34:21:cb
        inet6 fe80::202:6fff:fe34:21cb%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 
        inet6 fd9c:6829:597c:10:202:6fff:fe34:21cb prefixlen 64 
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (autoselect <adhoc>)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "" channel 5 (2432 MHz 11g)
        country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 27 scanvalid 60
        protmode CTS wme burst bintval 0
broken-9#
##################

I have also tried to break it up in 2 pieces:
##################
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode adhoc"
ifconfig_wlan0="country ZA"
ifconfig_wlan0_alias0="channel 108 ssid mesh bssid 02:02:ca:fe:12:34 -bgscan"
ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 auto_linklocal"
ipv6_prefix_wlan0="fd9c:6829:597c:10"
##################

Rebooting with this, the country is set to ZA, but the rest is not set.

John
-- 
John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org