> is that having a visible impact for users? like was your computer not able to connect to some access point?
Yes. I just hit this problem on my new Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu. The Raspberry Pi OS dated February 21, 2023, based on Debian 11 (bullseye), sets my Wi-Fi region code to Canada during installation, and everything works fine. I then tried the Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) 64-bit desktop image and could no longer find my 5-GHz Wi-Fi access point. It turns out that my 5-GHz Wi-Fi is on channel 149, which is available in Canada but not available when the country code is unset. Channel 149 is not permitted in Japan, Turkey, and South Africa. [1] Adding "cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=CA" to the end of the following file solved the problem: $ cat /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt zswap.enabled=1 zswap.zpool=z3fold zswap.compressor=zstd dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=LABEL=writable rootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc quiet splash cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=CA It took me forever to find this bug report! The notes here are very helpful. I agree that it would be great to have the country code set automatically when the region is set at installation, and then again in the settings of the Wi-Fi configuration panels. That's certainly the first place I checked while trying to fix it. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1951586 Title: Need option to specify wifi regulatory domain Status in cloud-init: Invalid Status in netplan: Fix Released Status in NetworkManager: New Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in netplan.io source package in Jammy: Triaged Status in network-manager source package in Jammy: Incomplete Status in netplan.io source package in Kinetic: Fix Released Status in network-manager source package in Kinetic: Incomplete Bug description: It would be nice if netplan offered an option to specify the wifi regulatory domain (country code). For devices such as the Raspberry Pi you are currently advertising that users can simply setup Ubuntu Server headless by putting the wifi configuration details in cloudinit/netplan's "network-config" on the FAT partition of the SD card: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-raspberry-pi#3-wifi-or-ethernet But an option to set the wifi country code there does not seem to exist, so may not work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1951586/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
