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Overview
Different countries enforce different frequency restrictions on the various wifi channels. This can be a pain if your card/OS is forcing you into a different configuration than the one you need. There are numerous reasons why this may be happening. From drivers favouring EEPROM configurations over your settings to weird decision making based on observed network activity. Either way, the discerning wifi hacker doesn’t want to have to bother with such things.
Contents
This contains a modified binary regulations configuration (regulatory.bin), based on the plain-text input file (db.txt). This configuration sets all countries to the same setting, and that setting is the least restrictive possible. That way, no matter what domain you’re being forced into, you get the same functionality.
Benefits
This includes:
Warnings
Of course, this let’s you do dangerous things too, and you need to be very careful how you use this. In particular:
Installing
If you have a crda compiled with external key support, you need to do two things to install this. The first is to overwrite your existing regulatory.bin with the new one. The second is to copy my public key to the right directory.
When overwriting the .bin, make sure to make a backup of the original so you can go back to normal wifi function if you need to/want to.
My public key is needed because the binary is signed by my private key, and crda needs the public key to validate that signature.
On Kali Rolling 2018.1 I ran the following commands:
Different countries enforce different frequency restrictions on the various wifi channels. This can be a pain if your card/OS is forcing you into a different configuration than the one you need. There are numerous reasons why this may be happening. From drivers favouring EEPROM configurations over your settings to weird decision making based on observed network activity. Either way, the discerning wifi hacker doesn’t want to have to bother with such things.
Contents
This contains a modified binary regulations configuration (regulatory.bin), based on the plain-text input file (db.txt). This configuration sets all countries to the same setting, and that setting is the least restrictive possible. That way, no matter what domain you’re being forced into, you get the same functionality.
Benefits
This includes:
- Being able to access all sorts of channels, such as 14 (JP only usually) in 2.4Ghz, an assortment in 5Ghz and even some of the new 60Ghz or special 4Ghz bands.
- Being able to transmit at full power (30dBm), no power limits.
- Being able to use large band configurations (40/80/160) where the continuous spectrum allows is.
- Being able to ignore DFS.
Warnings
Of course, this let’s you do dangerous things too, and you need to be very careful how you use this. In particular:
- Many of these configurations are completely illegal in many different countries. Passive monitoring of those frequencies isn’t likely to get you caught, but transmitting at full power in some of them could not only get you in trouble, but also interfere with critical services such as emergency services. Here’s a list of actions taken against those caught violating FCC rules in this way in the US https://www.fcc.gov/general/u-nii-and-tdwr-interference-enforcement
- Many of these configurations are impossible, for example, channel 14 (2474-2494) should only be available in Japan, at 20Mhz width and 802.11b only (no OFDM). However, with this configuration, you may be able to violate all of that and create a network no device would be able to connect to.
- You could break your device. Transmitting at too high power on frequencies or configurations the firmware/hardware never thought anyone could/would may lead to undesirable consequences to your hardware.
Installing
If you have a crda compiled with external key support, you need to do two things to install this. The first is to overwrite your existing regulatory.bin with the new one. The second is to copy my public key to the right directory.
When overwriting the .bin, make sure to make a backup of the original so you can go back to normal wifi function if you need to/want to.
My public key is needed because the binary is signed by my private key, and crda needs the public key to validate that signature.
On Kali Rolling 2018.1 I ran the following commands:
This will make sure you get the pre-requisites.
Get a copy of this repo.
Make a backup of the original file, and replace it with the new one, and add my public key to crda’s list of accepted keys.
If you change to a new locale that isn’t your current, the new setting will take effect.
You should see something like:
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