From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262969AbVAFV2p (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:28:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263001AbVAFV11 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:27:27 -0500 Received: from perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.31]:50605 "EHLO perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263028AbVAFVYf (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:24:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:24:31 -0500 To: Lee Revell Cc: Norbert van Nobelen , Raphael Jacquot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards Message-ID: <20050106212431.GD30311@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20050105200526.GL5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <20050106172438.GT5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> <41DD8D71.7000708@imag.fr> <200501062032.13513.Norbert@edusupport.nl> <1105045205.15823.4.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105045205.15823.4.camel@krustophenia.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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