On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:20:39PM -0800, James Ewing wrote: > "IMO, people should reject irresponsible power hacks like these. There > is really a lot at stake for the open-source community, which needs to > build trust with the FCC and the 802.11 manufacturers by proving that > they > will not propagate device drivers that operate radios outside the > legal > power limits. It is hard enough to get 802.11 docs for open source, > now; > if the community's earns a reputation for sloppiness and recklessness, > it will be even worse." > > This is neither irresponsible nor reckless. The 84 mw setting is legal > even in the EU, where output is limited to 100 mw max. It is > far below the North American max of 4W and 1/3 the setting of the > popular 200 mw Senao cards. > > The Sveasoft code is completely open source. > > IMO people shouldn't spread groundless FUD.
Unless you know that the card in question is type-accepted for that amount of output power, and can produce it *cleanly*, then you shouldn't be asserting that it's ok. And I suspect you *don't*, in fact, know that. Enough, as we used to say, "to bet your license on". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
