On 09/10/2010 01:35 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:25:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> Wireless has been particularly problematic for many vendors for a long >> time because the US regulations require wireless devices are not user >> tamperable. This leads to questions like "what does that mean if it's open >> source and you can set an unapproved frequency or power by hacking the >> code" > > Hmm...this especially brings up the question with respect to packages > such as DD-WRT or Tomato that totally take over and control a wireless > router. They have no 'sanity firmware' checking them. The wireless chipsets on those devices may still have firmware inside them even if the user chose to replace the embedded OS that runs on the whole device (they are no different than a little linux box with no graphics and a few extra network devices). Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
