WiFi: set regulatory domain (country) in the WiFi wizard and web helper

Without a country Linux uses the restrictive world domain: networks show up
in scans but the adapter can't join them. The menu asks (default from the
existing config or system locale); the web helper uses the same default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A97KUggSE3rBL8veDM5Mr4
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Claude
2026-10-16 17:42:44 +00:00
parent b88d648e14
commit 9221fc85aa
2 changed files with 56 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -139,6 +139,25 @@ except Exception:
sys.exit(1)' "$WIFI_NETPLAN_FILE" "$SYS_CLASS" 2>/dev/null
}
# Two-letter country code for the WiFi regulatory domain: the one already
# in our netplan file, else from the system locale (en_US.UTF-8 -> US).
# Without a country set, Linux uses the restrictive "world" domain: many
# 5 GHz channels become listen-only, so a network shows up in scans but
# the adapter can't join it.
default_country() {
local c=""
if [[ -f "$WIFI_NETPLAN_FILE" ]]; then
c=$(sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*regulatory-domain:[[:space:]]*["'"'"']\{0,1\}\([A-Za-z][A-Za-z]\).*/\1/p' "$WIFI_NETPLAN_FILE" | head -1)
fi
if [[ -z "$c" ]]; then
local loc="${LANG:-}"
[[ -r /etc/default/locale ]] && loc=$(sed -n 's/^LANG=["'"'"']\{0,1\}\([^"'"'"']*\).*/\1/p' /etc/default/locale | head -1)
[[ "$loc" =~ _([A-Z][A-Z])[.@]? ]] && c="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
fi
echo "${c^^}"
}
need_iface() {
IFACE=$(prefer_configured_iface || detect_iface) || reply_error "No WiFi adapter found. If it's a USB adapter, check it's plugged in."
command -v iw >/dev/null || reply_error "WiFi support (iw, wpasupplicant) isn't installed - run Core Settings -> WiFi once from the admin menu"
@@ -264,7 +283,9 @@ do_connect() {
unblock
hard_blocked && reply_error "WiFi is switched off by a hardware switch or in the BIOS/UEFI"
local backup="" new
local country backup="" new
country=$(default_country)
[[ -n "$country" ]] && iw reg set "$country" 2>/dev/null
mkdir -p "$NETPLAN_DIR"
if [[ -f "$WIFI_NETPLAN_FILE" ]]; then
backup="${WIFI_NETPLAN_FILE}.backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)"
@@ -281,6 +302,7 @@ do_connect() {
echo " dhcp4: true"
echo " dhcp6: false"
echo " optional: true"
[[ -n "$country" ]] && echo " regulatory-domain: \"$country\""
echo " access-points:"
if [[ -n "$password" ]]; then
echo " $(yaml_quote "$ssid"):"