cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db

[dolivas27]

Hi guys and gals,

I have this error on boot and I don't think I had it before updating to 8.1 but I am not sure?

From my reading it has to do with the wireless driver but I am not using any wireless cards on the system.

If you know how to fix it or have link on how to fix it. That would be awesome.

Thanks,
Dean

 

[dolivas27]

Bump does anyone have a clue what the problem is here?

Thanks,
Dean

 

[BobhWasatch]

801.11 is wifi. The error likely means you don't have the proper firmware installed.

Do you actually use the wireless? I don't think that error will affect anything else. If you want wifi to work maybe you need one of the non-free firmware packages. Which one depends on what wifi you have.

 

[dolivas27]

No I do not have wireless on the system. That's what strange about the error message.

Is there something I can remove or update?

 

[BobhWasatch]

My wifi-less server spits out a similar error and I never even noticed until now. I think that's about how important this is to fix. It tried to load some wifi stuff, you don't have wifi so it failed. Not a big deal.

 

[dolivas27]

I replaced these three files in the /usr/lib/firmware directory and no more errors.......

regulatory.bin
regulatory.db
regulatory.db.p7s

I got the files from here
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu.../?id=991b1ef696b7a034a5bf001cf31ab7735888c6e1

Hope this helps someone else........

Have an awesome day all............

 

[cleitonpena]

On Debian 12(bookworm) I just installed the iw package and the error disappeared during the VM boot