Bug 1045702

Summary:	Wireless: Please explain setregdomain and /etc/sysconfig/regdomain
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004>
Component:	doc-Networking_Guide	Assignee:	Mirek Jahoda <mjahoda>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.0	CC:	linville
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
Target Release:	7.1
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Description Răzvan Sandu 2013-12-21 10:52:30 UTC

Description of problem:

Red Hat family distros need a way of correctly setting the wireless regulatory domain, as explained in Fedora bug #806221 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806221)

The setregdomain utility and /etc/sysconfig/regdomain file are involved in this, but they are not documented in System Administrators Guide or System Administrators Reference Guide

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/System_Administrators_Reference_Guide/index.html#sect-sysconfig-files

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
System Administrators Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta, Edition 0, as of 21.12.2013.
System Administrators Reference Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta, Edition 0, as of 21.12.2013.

How reproducible:
Check documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta, as of 21.12.2013.

Actual results:
There is no documentation for setting the wireless regulatory domain of a Red Hat system (particularily for the setregdomain utility and /etc/sysconfig/regdomain file).

Expected results:
A complete, easy to understand documentation is needed for system administrators and end users.

Additional info:
Fedora bug #806221 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806221)

Comment 2 Stephen Wadeley 2014-01-08 10:16:54 UTC

Thank you Răzvan

I will try to add this info.

Regards
Stephen

Comment 6 John W. Linville 2016-09-21 14:16:51 UTC

man setregdomain

Comment 9 Mirek Jahoda 2017-05-24 15:57:27 UTC

The update has been published on the Customer Portal [1]

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html-single/Networking_Guide/index.html#sec-Setting_Wireless_Regulatory_Domain