ndiswrapper
Oren Beck
oren_beck at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 1 19:04:01 CST 2004
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> As I understand it, there is the potential for 802.11g cards to disrupt, or at
> least use, frequencies that are used by the military. Manufactureres have,
> according to rumor, been pressured not to release information that would
> allow users to select these frequencies. Open Source software does not
> provide any means for manufacturers to do this, and aparantly locking down
> the available frequencies in the hardware is impractical.
>
> This is just rumor - I have seen no confirmation that there has been any
> pressure on the manufacturers, nor can I confirm that this potential is
> anythnig more than an excuse to stick to a propietary model.
>
The answer is almost all of those points. And of course the usual FUD .
Open Source coders to my experience are arguably LESS likely to be
a problem of disrespecting REAL band usage constraints.
Knowing the potentials for havoc makes one cautious in violating hard
limits of spectrum separation . True- there are always going to be
those who " Bring a gun to a knife fight" but WE have fewer of those .
My personal work with software defined radios-Motorola ,
Drake , Alinco confirm that "band notching" or "Selective TX Inhibit"
causes instability and usability issues compared to cost factors .
Snipped of the esoterica -
"Either you can have the gear be cheap-unhackable-or stable pick any 2 ."
Oren
www.campdownunder.com
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