Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

[Pavel Machek]

> As a result of this change, some of the capabilities currently required
> to be provided on the host include enforcement of regulatory limits for
> the radio transmitter (radio calibration, transmit power, valid
> channels, 802.11h, etc.)  In order to meet the requirements of all
> geographies into which our adapters ship (over 100 countries) we have
> placed the regulatory enforcement logic into a user space daemon that
> we provide as a binary under the same license agreement as the
> microcode.  We provide that binary pre-compiled as both a 32-bit and
> 64-bit application.  The daemon utilizes a sysfs interface exposed by
> the driver in order to communicate with the hardware and configure the
> required regulatory parameters.

Well, that means no luck to sparc users.... And I hope kernel<->user
interface is nice, clean and documented.

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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