ndiswrapper

[Oren Beck]

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

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