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hello,

> The Atheros radios can tune frequencies in the 4.8 - 5.8 GHz range. Some
> radars used for aviation are in that band.  To the best of my knowledge,
> the HAL is closed-source out of concerns that if open sources were
> modified, you could inadvertently/purposefully interfere with radar.

thanks for the information david. any references or related information
on this? sounds very interesting to me, especially in days of 
anti-terrorism hypes.

there are efforts to write a opensource hal, see
http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/

it came to my knowledge that a member of vantronix plans to port the ar5k
to openbsd, i'm going to ask him about the current state of the project.

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TOM

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