airport estreme with Freebsd

[Joshua Coombs]

>> It sure does then the company in question is a USA company.  They
>> certainly *ARE* under the FCC's regulatory jurisdiction.
>>
>
> Really, so I assume you would hold that American companies who benefit
> from overseas sweat shops and child labour follow american regulatory
> agencies dictates (considering that clothing manufacturing occurs
> overseas as with computer manufacturing)?

If you want to sell your product in the US, and it transmits or recieves, or 
could possibly generate RF as a byproduct of it's operation, your product 
must meet all appropriate FCC regulations and recieve a certifcation from 
them.  Doesn't matter where it's produced.  Canada, most European nations, 
and others have a similar system.  They all are generally working with the 
international body that covers similar functionality, the ITU.

If the company is worried releasing firmware will invalidate their FCC cert 
to sell their product in the US, thats a pretty valid concern.  Thats a 
large chunk of market to loose, not to mention the possibility of being 
fined at the same time.

Net result, this isn't advancing the game.

Can a driver be written without distributing the firmware?  IE require the 
user download it, extract it from the windows distribuition, and place it in 
the correct spot?

Joshua Coombs