[ham-80211] Re: WEP encryption?

[Drew Baxter]

Supposedly Broadcom has concerns that people will go into military bands if 
they release the driver.  Really I see this as a situation where people 
could also buy a Ham radio and irritate public safety by modifying it.

People are going to make illegal use of things if they so choose.  Really 
shouldn't ruin moving forward for everyone because of the potential of some 
bad apples.

I think that the only reason why the SVEASoft firmware allows for up 
through channel 14 is because the broadcom driver probably lets you set the 
channels for any country and doesn't have a country lockout in the firmware 
itself.  But that is an interesting observation and perhaps something to 
keep in mind if we wanted to change the floor at which our Part97 stuff was 
operating.

--Droo, K1XVM

At 04:29 PM 7/28/2004, Jeff King wrote:
>Well, the WRT54G, which uses the Broadcom chipset, with either 'WiFi box' or
>SVEASOFT can be put on channels 1-14  (anything above 6 is out of the ham
>band). I'm thinking maybe you could get one channel below 1 that is on the 
>ham
>band (channel 0?) but no idea if the broadcom would support that. 
>Certainly no
>reason to.
>
>
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