Hi, > Would not it be easiest to have the chipset enforce the acceptable bands? > So that software can't switch the chipset to 1337 GHz no matter how hard > you forward/reverse-engineer it.
Obviously Intel doesn't want to manufacture one chipset for each subtle difference in legislation in each and every country it sells its chips in : Intel wants flexibility. Additionally, there seems to be a market for selling wifi devices to companies which have a licence for some special frequencies. Atheros hardware is used for such usage, and Intersil devices have output power calibration data for *very strange* freqs, for instance. You can't manufacture special chipsets in this case either. Big costumers want flexibility. This is, not even speaking about roaming your device from one country to another. End-users want flexibility too... JB - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
