Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
From: Dick Streefland
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 09:25:38 EST
James Ketrenos <jketreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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.
I fail to see how a binary-only daemon can be used to enforce
regulatory limits. What stops a user from running a daemon for
another country, enforcing different limits?
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Dick Streefland //// Altium BV
dick.streefland@xxxxxxxxx (@ @) http://www.altium.com
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