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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:45:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: CRDA and ath5k with no country code in EEPROM
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure I get it right:
> I have an ath5k card without a country code in EEPROM. I think such card
> is supposed to not force any additional restrictions, am I wrong?
> The problem is "no country code" is effectively equal to US, i.e. it's
> forcing additional US restrictions no matter what the actual regdomain
> is.
>
> Linux 2.6.33.
>
> ath5k 0000:00:0d.0: registered as 'phy0'
> ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0

I've documented this specific case here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath/#The_0x0_regulatory_domain

  Luis