New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Routers?

Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by Spivak on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:07AM (#9959462)

Is there any actual merit to "impossible to flash" when you can open up the box and start replacing parts?

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by vidarh on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @04:46AM (#9960263)

How large a proportion of people are able to de-solder surface mounted components and replace them? I'm not asking how many can learn to do so and get the equipment, but how many who knows how to do it and have the equipment.

No policies like this are made with the expectation they'll stop everyone. They just want to raise the barrier sufficiently.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by dogma1138 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @06:00AM (#9960469)

If you open most SOHO routers today (mid-to high end ones) the baseband processor and the RF stuff will be on a daughter board, in many cases it will be the same or very similar mini-PCIE cards that you find in most laptops.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by vidarh on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:54AM (#9973807)

> the baseband processor and the RF stuff will be on a daughter board

Which doesn't help you all that much in replacing the firmware.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by sounds on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:27AM (#9959518)

Yes. Signed bootloader loading signed kernel, etc.

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