Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263761AbTFCT07 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:26:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263777AbTFCT07 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:26:59 -0400 Received: from windsormachine.com ([206.48.122.28]:5641 "EHLO router.windsormachine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263761AbTFCT06 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:26:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:40:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Dresser To: Subject: Re: Linux and IBM : "unauthorized" mini-PCI : TCPA updates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 20 On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Mark Grosberg wrote: > Maybe there is a less evil explanation for this? > > This is hypothetical, but before people go off and do something rash, > perhaps IBM prevents the card from booting for a technical reason. Maybe > it works electrically but in late testing they found it caused thermal or > electrical problems. There was a thread here(i think) recently about wirless causing problems with other frequencies, and that you could only broadcast in a specific set of frequencies. I assume this is related to what IBM has done. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/