From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:47:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4400DE8C.1000303@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4400DA0B.1060502@free.fr>
matthieu castet wrote:
> And what happen with the userspace binary blob ?
>
> How it will know in which country you are ?
> Does it access to a secret GPS on your computer ?
>
> So there are 2 solutions :
> - make the card work only for a country with a flag in a RO eeprom or in
> another place in the hardware (firmware, ....).
> - make the card works on all the possible channels.
>
> Also if the firmware need to be load each time you reset the card (this
> is the case with the current ipw2xxx implementation), you won't notice
> if you switch for a firmware for a country X to a firmware for a country Y.
I haven't looked at the driver code, but I would expect it to be like the ipw2200 where the
"country" code is in eeprom, which sets a code specifying the region where it will work. If you take
a given piece of hardware somewhere else in the world, it will likely not be in complience.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-25 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-24 22:29 [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection James Ketrenos
2006-02-24 23:34 ` Dax Kelson
2006-02-24 23:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-02-25 13:26 ` Michael Buesch
2006-02-25 8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-25 10:49 ` Gene Heskett
2006-02-25 10:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-25 11:19 ` Gene Heskett
2006-02-25 13:19 ` Michael Buesch
2006-02-26 1:09 ` Stephen Evanchik
2006-02-25 12:29 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-02-25 14:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-25 19:09 ` Gene Heskett
2006-02-25 19:41 ` Michael Buesch
2006-02-25 22:07 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-02-25 22:19 ` John Stoffel
2006-02-25 22:28 ` matthieu castet
2006-02-25 22:47 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2006-02-26 20:20 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2006-02-26 0:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-27 17:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-27 17:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-03-03 20:04 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-03-03 20:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-26 17:54 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-27 14:27 ` Dick Streefland
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