From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Norbert van Nobelen <Norbert@edusupport.nl>,
Raphael Jacquot <raphael.jacquot@imag.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:24:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050106212431.GD30311@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105045205.15823.4.camel@krustophenia.net>
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:00:05PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 20:32 +0100, Norbert van Nobelen wrote:
> > 100mWatt antenna (-: Gives 4 mile range (-:
> > Make it USB powered (-: (so that the pcmcia card does not overheat!!)
>
> Ah, this reminds me, isn't there some kind of issue with open source
> wireless and FCC (or whatever your local equivalent is) regulations? Or
> was that just an excuse the vendors used for their closed source
> drivers?
Just an excuse.
Someone determined enough would hex edit the code to change the signal
power. The FCC isn't stupid enough to believe obfuscation prevents
abuse. They just have laws against using too high a power. Of course
enforcing it isn't easy either. And the firmware can't prevent you from
changing the antenna and/or using a signal booster.
Len Sorensen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050105192447.GJ5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu>
2005-01-05 20:05 ` Open hardware wireless cards Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-05 20:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-01-05 20:48 ` linux-os
2005-01-05 21:35 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-01-05 21:09 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-01-08 20:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-09 9:59 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-09 22:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-09 23:00 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-05 20:17 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-01-05 20:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-06 8:02 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06 17:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-06 17:37 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-06 17:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-06 17:42 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-06 19:06 ` Norbert van Nobelen
[not found] ` <1105044024.15770.7.camel@krustophenia.net>
2005-01-06 20:51 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06 17:59 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-06 20:25 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-07 10:37 ` Aaron Lehmann
2005-01-06 19:11 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-01-06 19:32 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06 21:00 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-06 21:24 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2005-01-06 21:39 ` Jim Nelson
2005-01-06 21:42 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-08 11:58 ` Paul Jakma
2005-01-06 21:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 20:22 ` [Prism54-users] " Steve Hill
2005-01-05 20:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2005-01-05 22:19 ` christos gentsis
2005-04-19 19:07 ` Karel Kulhavy
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