Re: Open hardware wireless cards

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jim Nelson wrote:

> Open-source drivers would make it trivial to make the hardware operate beyond 
> its legal limits - and could potentially land them in trouble with the 
> FCC/whatever.

This doesnt hold up at all, because the *closed* vendor software for 
some 802.11? radios will give you option to set the 'country' (and 
hence power), eg Netgear WG602v2 (an ISL3893 running Linux + 
proprietary mini-RTOS for the 802.11 bits + proprietary Linux side 
drivers to communicate between the two.).

Also, doesnt the USA have higher limits than most other countries? So 
the problem if anything would arise in /other/ regulatory domains, 
not FCC/USA.

regards,
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