From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 13:31:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE2837BCB7 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13222; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:31:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Laptop NICs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > At this point my only other option is Packet Radio, but I'd > > > need to get a ham licence for that unless I can figure out how to run it > > > in the citizen bands. :) Has anybody done this? > > > > If you mean the CB radio bands, that would be a violoation of their > > parameters. There's lots of hams doing packet radio with freebsd though, > > just check the archives. > > Well, by Citizen bands I meant 900Mhz, and the 2.3ghz (?) range, > which can both be broadcast in without a licence. There are no longer any radio frequency bands that you can broadcast in without a license. The FCC closed all those holes a long time ago, mostly due to the needs of cell phone/PDA/etc. users. It was all the hams could do to maintain a slice of their once palatial band, while the commercial enterprises moved in to capitalize on techniques we developed for a band that was considered so worthless that there actually _did_ used to be chunks of it that no one even wanted to claim for licensing purposes. C'est la vie. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message