Broadcom wifi drivers in F-14?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Sep 17 14:09:37 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:53 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 10:34 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jon Masters
> >> <jonathan at jonmasters.org>wrote:
> >
> >> > Well, the US law of the land says that you can't listen in on
> >> > telephone communications frequencies either. And the CFR advice and
> >> > FCC implementation is to require that designers of radio equipment
> >> > make it intentionally difficult to modify that equipment to listen
> >> > in on such frequencies.
> >
> >> The law in Canada is/was a little different.
> >
> > That's nice, but most of these manufacturers seem to be US based.
> 
> Its not that simple ... they have to comply with the regulatory rules
> of the countries they ship there products in.

Indeed. I believe it's actually the Japanese authorities who are the
biggest PITA in this respect, not the US FCC.

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dwmw2



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