[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#577692: iw reg set <regioncode> does not work with Atheros AR2413 on squeeze

[Florian Zagler]

Package: iw
Version: 0.9.14-1
Severity: normal


My Alix 6E2 embedded board is equipped with an Atheros AR2413 miniPCI wireless
 card. At system boot and every time I try do load the kernel modules using 
"modprobe ath5k" I can only use the default US frequency settings. 

When I try to set the regularity settings with "iw" like this everything is 
unchanged:

alix6:~# iw reg get
country US:
        (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 27)
        (5170 - 5190 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5190 - 5210 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5210 - 5230 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5230 - 5330 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5735 - 5835 @ 40), (6, 30)
alix6:~# iw reg set DE
alix6:~# iw reg get
country US:
        (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 27)
        (5170 - 5190 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5190 - 5210 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5210 - 5230 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5230 - 5330 @ 40), (6, 23)
        (5735 - 5835 @ 40), (6, 30)

I always get the old US settings. No way to change it.

Then I tried to load the module cfg80211 with module options as shown below 
with regulatory settings "EU" and this succeeded. But still no way to set the
 region using "iw reg set <regioncode>"

--- contents of "/etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf"
options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom="EU"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iw depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s

iw recommends no packages.

iw suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- output of lspci
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] Host Bridge (rev 33)
00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX AES Security Block
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA (rev 03)
00:0f.2 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] IDE (rev 01)
00:0f.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] OHC (rev 02)
00:0f.5 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] EHC (rev 02)