[ath9k-devel] Country code setting issue

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> some other countries like Japan also do not allow country selection.
>> As a matter of fact US and JP are the only ones I am aware of that
>> have this explicit restriction.
>
> Aha! Well, there are lots of users in other countries. :) It would be
> nice for us to have a method.
>
>
>> > Is it known how to write the EEPROM in-system, or would that have to
>> > be reverse engineered? (Of course it's trivial with an external
>> > programmer.)
>>
>> I have considered opening up a tool that lets you do this if we can
>> determine your country is not US or JP by using GeoClue. I already
>> had some initial glue code with geoclue for iw
>
> Great idea to add this to iw!

Patch was posted a while ago, but yeah I just have to rewrite it, but
Johannes also didn't seem too thrilled to have this as part of iw.
Perhaps its better to just have this as a separate app. Not sure.

>> but that needs to be re-written to use the GeoClue master provider
>> instead or querying for specific providers. If we can rely on the
>> user having  a GPS device present I think we can support this, so
>> long as the user is not in the US or JP.
>
> I think this would be a major improvement for everyone outside US/JP!
>
> (And I guess it's a pretty simple addition?)

Indeed, we wanted to have a solution for embedded to though and APs
neither have nor can get GPS devices on them and GeoClue is a bit of
bloat for embedded as well. So we'll likely have to find an
alternative solution for embedded.b

 Luis