Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposed structure for Regulatory/Geographical Wireless database

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:23:00 -0500

Uli Kunitz wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
> 
>> * A new routine (ieee80211_init_geo ?) will be written to be called by the
>> driver to load the geo structure into the kernel. Information passed to the
>> daemon will be the country code in ASCII and whether the interface is to be
>> used indoors or outdoors.
> 
> Would it be possible to support the regulatory domain codes as
> used in the outdated table 105 in Corrigendum 1 for 802.11b? The
> ZD1211 EEPROM contains only this code. An easy translation
> function would be sufficient. Maybe the group codes could be
> misused for it.

That certainly shouldn't be any difficulty. It could be done in the ZD1211 driver before it calls 
the ieee80211_init_geo routine, or it could be done in the regulatory daemon. I assume that the 
EEPROM contains X'10' for FCC regulations, X'31' for Spain, etc.

Larry