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SubjectRe: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support?
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:42:12 EDT, Thomas Tuttle said:

> Frankly, I think Intel is misinterpreting how strict the FCC is being
> (or maybe the FCC is being too strict).

The FCC has in the past managed to come up with the most astoundingly
brain-dead regulations (for instance, "fixing" the lack of any actual
encryption on some cell and portable phone by banning scanners...)

> Frankly, I'm annoyed that, if Intel understood the full extent of the
> problem, that they didn't take a better approach and simply give the
> card a set of legal values. It doesn't need to understand the
> subtleties of what they mean. It just needs to know frequencies 1, 2,
> and 3 are okay, but not 4, 5, and 6, and that the max power is xx dBm.

The problem is that in the US, 1,2, and 3 are OK, in Sweden 1,4,6 are OK,
in Germany it's 2,3, and 7, and China insists on 1.5,2.5, and 3.5....

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