Using GeoClue to send a Linux wireless regulatory hint

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Mon Jul 20 13:16:16 PDT 2009


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:54:53AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It just reads the country from timezone file, I've pasted the script
> > below inline in case you are curious.
> 
> Oh and here is the script used by Fedora (thanks to John):

This script is invoked by /lib/udev/rules.d/85-regulatory.rules
in Fedora.  This only occurs when a wireless device is added to
the system.  There is currently no awareness of timezone changes --
definitely a short-coming.  We could use some desktop developers to
advise/help with that!

John
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