From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 14:23:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C7F106564A; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:23:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erob@gthcfoundation.org) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F14F8FC15; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:23:45 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([184.162.50.38]) by vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LHN00DDD3YB0X70@vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca>; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:23:00 -0500 (EST) Message-id: <4D7398C6.8030800@gthcfoundation.org> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:23:02 -0500 From: Etienne Robillard Organization: Green Tea Hackers Club User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101227 Icedove/3.0.11 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Cc: bschmidt@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky Subject: can somebody explains OFDM in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: erob@gthcfoundation.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:23:46 -0000 Hi, as the subject line implies, can someone explains why OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is required for running run(4) ? Is there any (safer) alternative to OFDM? If not, could the FreeBSD security team verify the the safety of OFDM derived drivers (in particular wireless ethernet based nics) so that no ones get hurt being a WLAN (802.11ng ethernet-class) subcarrier ? -- Etienne Robillard Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Occupation: Software Developer (and CEO) E-mail: erob@gthcfoundation.org Work phone: 450-936-2123 Website (Company): https://gthc.org/ Website (Blog): https://gthc.org/blog/ PGP public key fingerprint: F2A9 32EA 8E7C 460F 1728 A1A7 649C 7F17 A086 DDEC During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -- John F. Kennedy