[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Alex Carver]

Right, except in an SoC based device you can't separate the two bits of
firmware.  So you have to lock out all firmware changes period in order
to comply.


On 2015-09-02 07:49, chip wrote:
> So reading through this it appears the purpose is to keep people from
> modifying the firmware of the radio itself, not the packet processing
> capabilities.  Basically, don't allow unauthorized modification of the
> radio's firmware to exceed or operate outside of FCC required ranges.  The
> documentation specifically calls out UNII devices, which is a 5Ghz wireless
> device.
> 
> --chip
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Kill this law. Kill it now. Kill it with fire.
>>
>> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:21 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/02/2015 09:34 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>>> On 09/02/2015 09:04 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>>> Buy your wifi routers now before you can't change their firmware:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31/fcc-introduces-rules-banning-wifi-router-firmware-modification/
>>>> suggestions on a cheap one to buy to keep as a spare??
>>>>
>>>
>>> For inside your LAN, doesn't matter much.
>>>
>>> For the edge router, build a pfsense box and use a separate wifi-AP.