From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:47:40 -0600 Message-ID: <4400DE8C.1000303@lwfinger.net> References: <43FF88E6.6020603@linux.intel.com> <20060225084139.GB22109@infradead.org> <200602250549.47547.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <17408.55266.948833.168988@smtp.charter.net> <4400DA0B.1060502@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Stoffel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: matthieu castet In-Reply-To: <4400DA0B.1060502@free.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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