atheros chips dangerous?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20060811112511.T45647 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:

>Something worth observing here is that many modern device drivers, especially 
>more complex cards with significant offload of functionality to the card, have 
>closed source components [...]

Not to mention regulatory requirements that the hardware not be configured
in certain parts of spectrum or power levels.

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