Timeout while waiting for CRDA to reply, restoring regulatory settings

[Yves Goergen]

I cannot set any regulatory domain for my WLAN card. When I set the kernel module option as described in [1], I keep getting infinite syslog messages, possibly until my disk is full. There are already other people having the same problem in [2]. Currently, WLAN channels 12 and 13 are unaccessible with Ubuntu 11.10 while they work (and always worked) with Windows XP and Windows 7. In [2] it sounds that this is a new bug in 11.10 and it was still working in 11.04. I personally have no historic experience since this is the first Ubuntu version I'm using WLAN with.

Here's an excerpt of my syslog messages:

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Dec 2 19:47:05 alix kernel: [ 442.750819] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: 97
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.900957] cfg80211: Timeout while waiting for CRDA to reply, restoring regulatory settings
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.900986] cfg80211: Keeping preference on module parameter ieee80211_regdom: EU
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.901015] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920188] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2412 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920221] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920244] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2417 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920271] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920294] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2422 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920321] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920343] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2427 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920370] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920393] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2432 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920420] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920442] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2437 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920469] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920492] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2442 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920518] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920541] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2447 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920568] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920590] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2452 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920617] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920640] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2457 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920667] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920689] cfg80211: Updating information on frequency 2462 MHz for a 20 MHz width channel with regulatory rule:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920716] cfg80211: 2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920736] cfg80211: Disabling freq 2467 MHz
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920752] cfg80211: Disabling freq 2472 MHz
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920768] cfg80211: Disabling freq 2484 MHz
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920792] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920808] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920834] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920860] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920885] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.920986] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.921012] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Dec 2 19:47:08 alix kernel: [ 445.922700] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: 97
Dec 2 19:47:11 alix kernel: [ 449.077335] cfg80211: Timeout while waiting for CRDA to reply, restoring regulatory settings
Dec 2 19:47:11 alix kernel: [ 449.077364] cfg80211: Keeping preference on module parameter ieee80211_regdom: EU
Dec 2 19:47:11 alix kernel: [ 449.077393] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
...

[1] http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN#Konfiguration-der-Kanaele-12-und-13
[2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11465763

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Yves Goergen (ygoe)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage says, the appropriate package is "the kernel".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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[Yves Goergen (ygoe)]

I've taken notice of this request, but the machine I used for all this is currently disassembled due to other failures. I'll return to this bug as soon as I've got it working again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]