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Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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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?

Lee