Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932202AbWBYWrt (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:47:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932201AbWBYWrt (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:47:49 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:7591 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932189AbWBYWrs (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:47:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4400DE8C.1000303@lwfinger.net> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:47:40 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matthieu castet CC: John Stoffel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection 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> In-Reply-To: <4400DA0B.1060502@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 26 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 - 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/