On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, J�rgen Botz wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > 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.
That doesn't require it be in the device driver however. the firmware or microcode in the chipset is as appropriate a place to put it as anywhere else. joelja > > 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. > > :j > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
