On 1/24/06, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem, as I understand it, is that because of FCC > regulations regarding power and such, card manufacturers do not want the > liability of someone modifying one of their cards such that it violates > any FCC regulations.
Actually, the card manufacturers are not given the choice to avoid liability. The FCC has directly ordered makers of software-defined radios to "take steps to ensure that only software that has been approved with a software defined radio can be loaded into such a radio", and that the software "must not allow the user to operate the transmitter with frequencies, output power, modulation types or other parameters outside of those that were approved". For reference, see Section 2.932 of the FCCs ruling on software defined radios. It can be found on page 19 of this document: http://che.ojctech.com/~dyoung/public/fcc-sdr.pdf Which I found via this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel/6941 -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
