[Battlemesh] Chilling effect - Lockdown (FCC/EU)

[Adam Longwill]

We have published our blog post and posted in on the usual social media
channels. We're at @metameshwc on twitter and would love some retweets.

The link to our post is here:
 http://www.metamesh.org/#!The-Lockdown-is-Here/ostn2/56c61ec00cf25df9371e8436
<http://www.metamesh.org/#!The-Lockdown-is-Here/ostn2/56c61ec00cf25df9371e8436>

I really like the conversation that is happening on this thread and other
parallel ones. Let's keep working toward a solution even if we are late to
the game.

Adam

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:24 AM, fboehm <fboehm at aon.at> wrote:

> Am 18.02.2016 um 12:22 schrieb Bastian Bittorf:
>
>> * fboehm <fboehm at aon.at> [18.02.2016 12:09]:
>>
>>> You anyway loose the initial FCC or ETSI certification when you
>>> modify the radio driver. A re-certification would be necessary.
>>> Pragmatic solution from the FCC: firmware lock, period :)
>>>
>>
>> ok, unsure about that. does it mean if a vendor
>> changes code in the wireless driver the whole thing
>> has to be re-certificated? I dont think so. Are there
>> other people know something about that?
>>
>> It's also not necessary to design a new board. Plenty of PCIe radios
>>> and suitable boards are available. Manufacturers will have an
>>> incentive to produce them as long as there are enough users/buyers.
>>>
>>
>> the community is just to small: <100.000 boards a month 8-)
>>
>> As an alternative: there are finished MT7621 router designs that you
>>> can modify towards a PCIe ath9k radio instead of Mediatek radio. But
>>>
>>
>> there is no need for replacing the mt76 thingy, the driver
>> is good enough even now and is getting better and better...
>>
>> the radio should be a module and not an embedded radio. Otherwise you
>>> have to deal with radio calibration stuff. Such a board would not
>>> even be considered a wireless router when you buy the wireless card
>>> separately.
>>>
>>
>> are there good miniPCI/miniPCIexpress cards available?
>> (not hirose/UFL connectors but mmcx)
>>
>> bye, bastian
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>> I'm not a certification expert either but my two cents:
> In theory driver modifications should trigger a new certification process.
> In practice I expect that only some internal pre-certification tests are
> done. In real-life every manufacturer tries to avoid another FCC
> certification. ETSI is easier because it's a "self-certification" in many
> cases. You do the tests and publish a declaration of conformity.
>
> All this regulations and certification procedures regarding software-based
> radios like Atheros stuff (and real SDRs of course) is pretty new. In
> political time measurement! We will see what is happening next.
>
> I didn't know that the mt76 is so promising. Sounds interesting :)
>
> I would say with a few thousand boards per month you can consider a
> customized product. Electronics manufacturing is no longer rocket science.
> In theory even my equipment would be good enough to produce a thousand such
> boards per month.
>
> The PCIe cards with the MMCX connectors are high-power cards with
> heatsinks and all that stuff. Pretty expensive but also the highest range.
> Not because of the higher power limit but due to the better PA and LNAs. I
> honestly never had much problems with U.FL connectors but you are right
> that there are better connectors out there.
>
> Franz
>
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