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SubjectRe: Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 support
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
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http://www.hailfinger.org/

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