diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/README.md b/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/README.md
index e078582a79b..5a3ea9d3f5a 100644
--- a/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/README.md
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/README.md
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 `esp_wifi_regulatory.c` is generated from `esp_wifi_regulatory.txt` by using the `reg2fw.py` script.
 
 - Generate `esp_wifi_regulatory.c`
-  - `cd ~/esp-idf/components/esp_wifi/regulatory`
-  - `python reg2fw.py`
\ No newline at end of file
+  - `cd ${IDF_PATH}/components/esp_wifi/regulatory`
+  - `python reg2fw.py`
diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg2fw.py b/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg2fw.py
index 36a4b6bc7b5..a64081341a2 100755
--- a/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg2fw.py
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg2fw.py
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import os
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import TextIO
 
+from esp_pylib.logger import log
 from reg_parse import DBParser
 from reg_parse import Regdomain
+from rich.markup import escape
 
 # Not a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code; marks end of regdomain_table for linear scans (matches wifi_regdomain_t.cn[2]).
 REGDOMAIN_TABLE_SENTINEL_CC = '##'
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ def main() -> None:
         mtime = os.path.getmtime(file_path)
         copyright_year = datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime).year
     except FileNotFoundError:
-        raise Exception(f'File {file_path} not found')
+        log.die(f'File {file_path} not found')
 
     reg.simplify_countries(regdomains)
     reg.simplify_countries_2g(regdomains)
@@ -111,11 +113,11 @@ def main() -> None:
     max_rules_count = max_rules_country[1]
     max_rules_countries = [cc for cc, count in country_rules_count.items() if count == max_rules_count]
 
-    print('\n=== Regulatory Statistics ===')
-    print(f'Total supported countries: {total_countries}')
-    print(f'Country(ies) with most rules: {", ".join(max_rules_countries)}')
-    print(f'Maximum number of rules: {max_rules_count}')
-    print('=' * 30 + '\n')
+    log.print('\n=== Regulatory Statistics ===')
+    log.print(f'Total supported countries: {total_countries}')
+    log.print(f'Country(ies) with most rules: {", ".join(max_rules_countries)}')
+    log.print(f'Maximum number of rules: {max_rules_count}')
+    log.print('=' * 30 + '\n')
 
     type_list = list(reg.typical_regulatory.keys())
     perm_list = list(reg.typical_regulatory.values())
@@ -124,8 +126,9 @@ def main() -> None:
     perm_list_2g = list(reg.typical_regulatory_2g.values())
 
     output_file = 'esp_wifi_regulatory.c'
+    output_file_path = os.path.join(directory, output_file)
 
-    with open(output_file, 'w') as cfile:
+    with open(output_file_path, 'w') as cfile:
         cfile.write('/*\n')
         cfile.write(f' * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025-{copyright_year} Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD\n')
         cfile.write(' *\n')
@@ -143,8 +146,11 @@ def main() -> None:
         write_regulatory_data(cfile, reg, type_list_2g, perm_list_2g, filter_5g=False)
         cfile.write('#endif // CONFIG_SOC_WIFI_SUPPORT_5G\n')
 
-    print(f'{output_file} generated successfully.')
+    log.print(f'{escape(output_file)} generated successfully.')
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    from esp_pylib.excepthook import install_exception_reporting
+
+    install_exception_reporting()
     main()
diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg_parse.py b/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg_parse.py
index dd092982a24..ce09050b3b9 100755
--- a/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg_parse.py
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/regulatory/reg_parse.py
@@ -23,14 +23,15 @@
 # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 
 import math
-import sys
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from collections import defaultdict
-from collections.abc import Callable
 from functools import total_ordering
 from math import ceil
 from typing import TextIO
 
+from esp_pylib.logger import log
+from rich.markup import escape
+
 flag_definitions: dict[str, int] = {
     'NO-OFDM': 1 << 0,
     'NO-CCK': 1 << 1,
@@ -291,13 +292,8 @@ class Country:
     permissions_2g = property(_get_permissions_2g_tuple)
 
 
-class MySyntaxError(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
 class DBParser:
-    def __init__(self, warn: Callable[[str], None] | None = None) -> None:
-        self._warn_callout = warn or sys.stderr.write
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
         self._lineno: int = 0
         self._comments: list[str] = []
         self._banddup: dict[str, str] = {}
@@ -361,10 +357,10 @@ class DBParser:
 
     def _syntax_error(self, txt: str | None = None) -> None:
         txt = f' ({txt})' if txt else ''
-        raise MySyntaxError(f'Syntax error in line {self._lineno}{txt}')
+        log.die(f'Syntax error in line {self._lineno}{escape(txt)}')
 
     def _warn(self, txt: str) -> None:
-        self._warn(f'Warning (line {self._lineno}): {txt}\n')
+        log.warn(f'line {self._lineno}: {escape(txt)}')
 
     def channel_to_freq(self, channel: int) -> int:
         if channel == 14:
@@ -561,7 +557,10 @@ class DBParser:
                 self._warn(f"country '{cname}' not alpha2")
             cname_bytes = cname.encode('ascii')
             if cname_bytes not in self._countries:
-                self._countries[cname_bytes] = Country(dfs_region, comments=self._comments)
+                try:
+                    self._countries[cname_bytes] = Country(dfs_region, comments=self._comments)
+                except DFSRegionError as e:
+                    self._syntax_error(f'Invalid DFS region {e.dfs_region}')
             self._current_countries[cname_bytes] = self._countries[cname_bytes]
         self._comments = []