ath countrycode

[Marcin Jessa]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:23:43 -0600
Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:

> Jiri Mikulas wrote:
> > Hello
> > I have ATH cards Wistron CM9 (AR5213),
> > I want to set correct countrycode to use correct channels (ETSI)
> > (channels 1-13 on 11g, channels 100-140 on 11a)
> > but it's "disabled'
> >
> > osika:/# sysctl -a dev.ath.0.countrycode=203
> > sysctl: oid 'dev.ath.0.countrycode' is read only
> >
> > On most HW wireles AP I can switch country (for example COMPEX
> > WPE54AG-5GHz), on NetBSD and Linux I can set it too (according to
> > this article http://www.fehu.org/atheros.html ) so I'm little bit
> > suprised, that it's 'forbiden' on Freebsd
> >
> > I have
> >  FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Thu Jan 19 10:40:33 CET 2006
> >  dev.ath.0.countrycode: 0
> >  dev.ath.0.regdomain: 0
> >  hw.ath.hal.version: 0.9.14.9
> >  ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xff920000-0xff92ffff irq 17 at device
> > 2.0 on pci1 ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:6b:35:46:d7
> >  ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
> >
> > osika:/# ifconfig ath0 list chan
> > Channel   1 : 2412  Mhz 11g          Channel  48 : 5240  Mhz 11a
> > Channel   2 : 2417  Mhz 11g          Channel  50 : 5250  Mhz 11a
> > Turbo Channel   3 : 2422  Mhz 11g          Channel  52 : 5260  Mhz
> > 11a Channel   4 : 2427  Mhz 11g          Channel  56 : 5280  Mhz 11a
> > Channel   5 : 2432  Mhz 11g          Channel  58 : 5290  Mhz 11a
> > Turbo Channel   6 : 2437  Mhz 11g          Channel  60 : 5300  Mhz
> > 11a Channel   7 : 2442  Mhz 11g          Channel  64 : 5320  Mhz 11a
> > Channel   8 : 2447  Mhz 11g          Channel 149 : 5745  Mhz 11a
> > Channel   9 : 2452  Mhz 11g          Channel 152 : 5760  Mhz 11a
> > Turbo Channel  10 : 2457  Mhz 11g          Channel 153 : 5765  Mhz
> > 11a Channel  11 : 2462  Mhz 11g          Channel 157 : 5785  Mhz 11a
> > Channel  36 : 5180  Mhz 11a          Channel 160 : 5800  Mhz 11a
> > Turbo Channel  40 : 5200  Mhz 11a          Channel 161 : 5805  Mhz
> > 11a Channel  42 : 5210  Mhz 11a Turbo    Channel 165 : 5825  Mhz 11a
> > Channel  44 : 5220  Mhz 11a
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to switch countrycode on FBSD please ?
> >   
> 
> Did you try setting it in /boot/loader.conf?

IMHO that should be changed without booting with a rw sysctl value.
It's indeed strange this value is ro.