@jvonau I just came back to this while trawling through my still-open bug list and had a look at what happens on the desktop. At least on our Pi desktop images (using NetworkManager), no wifi regulatory domain gets set at all (at least on my local network). Just in case it made any difference, I also tried switching on "location services", but there was no effect on the regulatory domain.
It appears that the effort to make NetworkManager (or more broadly, the GNOME desktop) location aware stalled some considerable time ago [1] [2] [3] [1]: http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/developers/GSoC/2009/GeoClue_regulatory/ [2]: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA#using_network_manager_to_change_regulatory_domains [3]: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory#automatic_country_discovery Also, I don't see any option to manually set the regulatory domain in the UI. Now that crda's gone in jammy, and "iw" isn't seeded on the desktop image (for the Pi at least; is the PC any different?) there's effectively no way for the user to set the wifi regulatory domain (something that's fairly important ... legal stuff and all that) "out of the box" either via the GUI or via the command line. I've added the info the jammy release notes, and I'm going to add a few targets here as this clearly needs some work on several fronts, presumably netplan for servers and NetworkManager for desktops. ** Also affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: network-manager (Ubuntu Kinetic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: netplan.io (Ubuntu Kinetic) Importance: Medium Status: Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1951586 Title: Need option to specify wifi regulatory domain Status in cloud-init: Invalid Status in netplan: New Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: New Status in netplan.io source package in Jammy: Triaged Status in network-manager source package in Jammy: New Status in netplan.io source package in Kinetic: Triaged Status in network-manager source package in Kinetic: New 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/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
