Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262926AbUCKBHa (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:07:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262927AbUCKBHa (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:07:30 -0500 Received: from twin.uoregon.edu ([128.223.214.27]:14487 "EHLO twin.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262926AbUCKBH2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:07:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:07:01 -0800 (PST) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Jeff Garzik cc: vda , Dax Kelson , James Ketrenos , Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 802.11b driver In-Reply-To: <404ED404.4050604@pobox.com> 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: 1737 Lines: 44 On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Well that's typical in wireless, unfortunately. Certain parts of > wireless are political tennis balls with the US govt. and FCC. > Sometimes "put it in firmware" is the only way get ever get open source > drivers at all :/ I would be nice to have firmwares for each regulatory domain the hardware has been certified to work in. My laptops wander from country to country and spectrum allocation/ouput limits are noticably different or more limited than they are in the US. It would be nice to be able to be a good citizen, or at least a law abiding resident alien. On my old cisco b cards I could change this by flashing it, I have an old nokia b card which has a dialog in the windows driver utility to set the regulatory domain. The fcc isn't the only authority that we as users and chipset/card vendors have a legal obligation to comply with. > I'll pick firmware over no-driver any day. likewise, but one may not be enough. > Jeff > > > > - > 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/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - 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/