Ports an OpenWRT patch for Atheros wireless drivers (ath*) which allows
the user to change the regulatory domain code to the one which actually
applies.
All Atheros devices have a regulatory domain burned into their EEPROM.
When using a device as AP, this domain is frequently overly restrictive
when compared to the regulation which applies in the country the device
actually operates in; often, this restriction disallows IR on all
channels making it impossible to use the device as an AP at all.
This commit introduces the NixOS config option
networking.wireless.athUserRegulatoryDomain which, if enabled, applies
the patch and sets the kernel config option ATH_USER_REGD.
The original OpenWRT patch targets Linux 5.8.
All available options were just enabling
hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware. There were nix files without
modules which weren't referenced anywhere.
Due the recent inclusion of broadcom-bt-firmware in enableAllFirmware,
it was required to set `nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree` to obtain the full
list. To make this dependency more explicit an assertion is added and an
alternative option `enableRedistributalFirmware` is provided to only
obtain firmware with an license allowing redistribution.
This commit adds the firmware for the Intel 2200BG wireless cards for
the ipw2200 kernel module. Also it changes the
networking.enableIntel2200BGFirmware option to set it as
hardware.firmware since firmware-linux-nonfree does not contain the
appropiate firmware anymore. Also hardware.enableAllFirmware does enable
the intel2200BGFirmware now.
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
