Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:47:40 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection |
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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
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