airport estreme with Freebsd

[Mauro]

On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 16:29 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:08:04AM -0700, Mauro wrote:
> > >   That's one theory, and another is that the WiFi manufacturers don't 
> > > want to allow hackers to modify radio power settings or they'll
> > > lose their FCC licenses for the product.
> ..
> > I don't buy the theory about government frequencies.  This theory asks
> > one to believe that government frequencies are not intercepted or
> > tampered with in some fashion.  They are tampered with and can be done
> > so easily.  Legally sold scanners enable one to listen in to all sorts
> > of private signals.
> 
> One, don't top post -- it looses context.  This isn't a Mickysoft list.
> 
> Two isssue isn't necessarily about receiving certain frequencies as you
> assume.  As Peter said one of the issues is the FCC doesn't want you to
> set the TRANSMITTING POWER above a certain power.
> 

To clarify my statement concerning ethnocentrism,
don't assume we're all american and that the FCC dictates to
non-americans their ideas concerning radio waves.  So on a global level,
the excuse that the FCC doesn't approve doesn't wash.