Most SBC units use Linux which is also used with some PDA's, laptops and desktop systems. Most laptops can be classed as a SBC since they have what they need on a single board. Many SBC gear makes use of expansion connectors, based on the PCI or mini PCI standard, making them similar to many desktop motherboards.
The SBC gear from Gateworks, ADI, for example, have a processor, RAM, boot rom, file storage, Ethernet, and mini PCI slots. You could actually install a video card in one of the mini PCI slots and have an actual desktop PC. It would be slow, but it would do it, just the same. The block diagrams for a SBC and desktop motherboard will look pretty identical. Thus any talk of distinctions between different types of base units is not really on the right track and shows a lack of understanding of that sort of technology. I'm not sure why anybody in this Industry would be trying to say that it is OK to use an approved modular transmitter in a laptop but that it is not OK to use that same equipment in a board such as you get from Gateworks or ADI, and many others, I might add. I personally take great joy in the FCC saying that base unit is not an issue and that they are concerned with the transmitter and antenna portion. Lonnie On 4/26/07, Tim Kerns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181> > This new ruling is clearly aimed at the Dells, HPs, Toshibas etc. of the > world. Not at us. If you can find a source at the FCC that'll say > otherwise I'd LOVE to hear from them. 90% of the networks out there have > changed something that will take them out of compliance, this rule would > bring almost all of them back into compliance. > This is where I don't see that we are any different. What is the difference between an IPAQ, Dell, and SBC's like WRAP, Gateworks, Metro, etc. They are computers, they are base units that a radio module is installed into, they run an OS. Their primary purpose is to be a computer and we the WISP community have used them to become AP's or Clients. My Dell laptop with it's installed minipci radio is a "Client". And if I chose to install other software it can be an AP. The only thing I see my laptop from being legal is if I chose to attach a different antenna than what is already there. But if the manufacture of that radio had certified it with say a 24bd grid then I could attach that grid to the laptop and still be legal. Again this is MY wishful understanding of this new rule. Tim -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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