From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Centrino support
Date: 19 Aug 2003 17:15:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brulfixt.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F408EC9.809@aitel.hist.no>
>>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon Stewart <rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>> "Helge" == Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> writes:
Brandon> I thought that this line of argument was due to FCC
Brandon> regulations. That is, software settings would allow the
Brandon> hardware to violate frequency or strength-of-signal
Brandon> limitations set by government regulations. This is only
Brandon> from memory, so feel free to correct.
Helge> This does not in any way prevent them from releasing a driver,
Helge> open or closed source. It merely makes tampering with the
Helge> driver illegal.
Unless of course it can be programmed to listen in on the AMPS cell
phone band(s). In that case it could arguably be a felony for them to
release the programming info.... (Stupid law, but it has been
enforced rather obsessively....)
-JimC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-15 18:13 Centrino support Jan Rychter
2003-08-15 18:29 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-15 18:33 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-08-15 18:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-15 20:24 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-08-15 20:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-15 20:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-15 21:22 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-08-16 22:32 ` insecure
2003-08-17 4:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 20:35 ` Jan Rychter
2003-08-15 20:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-16 19:58 ` Jan Rychter
2003-08-16 14:23 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-16 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-18 23:52 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-15 20:46 ` Brandon Stewart
2003-08-16 10:34 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-16 19:58 ` Jan Rychter
2003-08-17 19:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-16 11:27 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-18 8:31 ` Helge Hafting
2003-08-19 21:15 ` James H. Cloos Jr. [this message]
2003-08-19 23:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 19:33 ` Micha Feigin
2003-08-17 20:07 ` Jussi Laako
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-15 20:32 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-15 22:36 Ricardo Galli
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