Bug#1104022: wireless-regdb: Consider importing setregdomain and udev rule from Fedora

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Adam,

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 06:47:34PM +1000, Adam wrote:
> Package: wireless-regdb
> Version: 2025.02.20-1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian@voltagex.org
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Fedora (and others?) have an additional script and udev rule as part of the wireless-regdb package
> which attempts to set the wireless country code automatically.
> 
> See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wireless-regdb/tree/rawhide
> 
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> $ sudo iw reg get
> global
> country US: DFS-FCC
>         (902 - 904 @ 2), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
>         (904 - 920 @ 16), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
>         (920 - 928 @ 8), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
>         (2400 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
>         (5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), AUTO-BW
>         (5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
>         (5470 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
>         (5730 - 5850 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A), AUTO-BW
>         (5850 - 5895 @ 40), (N/A, 27), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
>         (5925 - 7125 @ 320), (N/A, 12), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, PASSIVE-SCAN
>         (57240 - 71000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)
> 
> I am not in the US and I belive this is contributing to some of my issues with wifi.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> "options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=AU" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/mt7921.conf
> 
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> Wireless regulatory domain / country code to be set automatically

Disclaimer, I have not checked how suitable the respective script in
fedora is, but as alternative I would propose that you might ask
Fedora people to submit their adaptions to upstream (even if only
provided as examples, there are already e.g. spec file or a
debian-exmaple directory upstream). Once it is there it would be more
streamline for distros to have a common base .

I'm not sure if this alternative road would be suitable, but proposing
an alternative road. Let's see what Ben thinks on it.

Regards,
Salvatore