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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:33 +0100
From: Brian Morrison <bdm@fenrir.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945: Disabled channels
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Johannes Berg wrote:
>> If you're in the EU, I contributed a fix that has not yet made it into 
>> the iwlwifi code as it is under review (the whole regulatory aspect is 
>> difficult, there are so many caveats!).
> 
> Technically, it's cfg80211 code; the reason that it's not in yet is that
> I'm unsure about the legal situation of the ETSI and the national
> bodies, it seems to me that the ultimate decision is done by the
> national bodies and last I heard France had quite different restrictions
> than Germany, for example.
> 
> Does anyone have that info? I can dig up the info for Germany easily
> (the "Frequenznutzungsplan" is available on the regulatory agency web
> site as pdf)

Further to my previous comment, here is another press release:

http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=8571&L=1&tx_gsactualite_pi1[uid]=214&tx_gsactualite_pi1[annee]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[theme]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[motscle]=WLAN%20Wifi&tx_gsactualite_pi1[backID]=2122&cHash=48ad69deb0

Indicating that all 100 departements now allow the same conditions as 
those applied to the 58 listed in the previous document.

Oh, and:

http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=8571&L=1&tx_gsactualite_pi1[uid]=944&tx_gsactualite_pi1[annee]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[theme]=0&tx_gsactualite_pi1[motscle]=WLAN%20Wifi&tx_gsactualite_pi1[backID]=2122&cHash=15247b0fd6

has some diagrams showing this and detailing some more information about 
5GHz and overseas French territories.

-- 

Brian