No more like, The atheros chipsets has a number of features which if enabled place the chipset outside of it's fcc certification for unliscensed use.
No... read the doc I posted a link to (from the README). The FCC has made an EXPLICIT rule that software radios must prevent unauthorized modification.
They (atheros) fear (rightly probably) that if they make access to those features available that people will use them.
Uhm... maybe the makers of transistors should also fear that if they sell them to individuals that those individuals will use them to make radios that violate FCC rules. Thus transistors should only be sold to good-citizen-corporations, never to the unwashed masses.
Hobbyists have been building radios that can (and sometimes do) violate every FCC rule in the book for longer than there's been an FCC. The new FCC rules are nothing but another road to the the same end as the DMCA... removing the ability to create from the individual, turning us into mindless consumers who'll eat what we're fed by "authorized" corporations.
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