Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:48:06 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 support |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > > >>Citat Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>: >> >> >>>>So don't blame the vendors on this one, several of them would love >>>>to publish drivers public for their cards, but simply cannot with >>>>upsetting federal regulators. >>> >>>/me wants binary only driver for these cards to build opensource driver >>>with ability to set "interesting" frequency range. >>> >> >>It's there for Windows :) So ... > > > Contrary to popular opinion, there is no FCC regulation prohibiting > one from receiving some particular frequency. There is, however, a
Contrary to popular opinion, not everybody lives in the US. Here in Germany, receiving some particular frequencies (e.g. those used by the police) was prohibited a few years ago (I don't know exactly if they changed the law). The argument was that some receiver types emitted a weak signal on the frequency they were listening to (and could be tuned to become a private radio station) which could interfere with the low-power police devices. However, it was simply not sensible to prohibit all radios, so they were constained to a specific frequency range.
Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
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