Re: ipw2200 regulatory region setting

Zhu Yi <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:31:38 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Organization Intel Corp.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 01:18 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> 
> 1. You may obtain a card that has some regulatory region in the eprom 
> that does not match the regulatory region you're actually in. In my
> case 
>   the 2915ABG card I obtained (in germany) has "ZZH" in the eprom but 
> actually for my regulatory region (germany) I do need "ZZE".

Ask your vendor to replace with a correct region card.

> 2. You may travel between regulatory regions and thus may have to
> change the regulatory region settings.

This is the same thing for cell phone. You can use it in one region
doesn't necessarily mean it is also certified in other regions. Not sure
what is the legal way to achieve this (a global region card?). If you
are using Windows, I don't even think you have a way to switch, right?

Thanks,
-yi

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