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[Solved] how to set country and make it visible to wifi drivers?

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GNUser:
Hi, Rich. I put all the  regulatory.*  files in  /lib/firmware/  directory as suggested. I still cannot set the country:
[form error. see attached]

Setting the country as in the attachment works fine in Devuan, without having to reload any kernel modules. I'm stuck.

Rich:
Hi GNUser

--- Quote from: GNUser on July 02, 2022, 11:29:46 PM --- ... Setting the country as in the attachment works fine in Devuan, without having to reload any kernel modules. I'm stuck.
--- End quote ---
Devuan has a persistent file system, Tinycore does not. Unless you added the  regulatory.*  files to the  rootfs , they may be
showing up too late. You might need to reload the drivers or create an additional initrd containing just the  regulatory.*  files.

GNUser:
1. I added  /lib/firmware/regulatory.db  and  /lib/firmware/regulatory.db.p7s  to corepure64.gz
2. I added this command to top of /opt/bootlocal.sh: iw reg set US

Then I rebooted and voila, everything works as expected :o
My home wireless network is now 5 GHz. Download speeds for wireless clients increased from 30 Mbps to 90 Mbps. Rich, there's absolutely no way I could have solved this without your help. THANK YOU!

Rich:
Hi GNUser
If you create a separate initrd it will make it obvious there is a special modification. Plus it
is now portable so you don't have to remaster  corepure64.gz  anytime you want to test
a new release.

Create the file system:

--- Code: ---mkdir -p tempdir/lib/firmware/
cp regulatory.db tempdir/lib/firmware/
cp regulatory.db.p7s tempdir/lib/firmware/
cd tempdir
--- End code ---

Pack it up:
Sorry, forum error, see attachment.

Finish:

--- Code: ---cd ..
--- End code ---

--- Code: ---rm -rf tempdir
cp regulatory.gz /boot
--- End code ---

I think the syntax for loading multiple initrd files in grub2 would look like this:

--- Code: ---initrd /boot/corepure64.gz /boot/regulatory.gz
--- End code ---

Paul_123:
I have found that as long as regulatory.db and it’s signature is loaded before your WiFi firmware/drivers.  It works fine in an extension….. at least on a rpi.  There is a regdb.tcz extension in the piCore repos.

And yes, crda is obsolete with modern kernels.

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