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FCC ID: ANOCORN1TASUHOP Document Number: FCC-19-0182-0
4/9
Meeting Date:
January 25, 2002
Meeting Location:
FCC Laboratory
7435 Oakland Mills Road
Columbia, MD 21046
At the onset of the meeting, the FCC restated that Limited Modular
Approval radios sold separately were not allowed as described in the
Public Notice of June 26, 2000
(http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Public_Notices/2000/da001
407.doc). Their major points of concern were the requirement for a unique
antenna connection and allowing a customer to install FCC ID labels.
Limited Modular Approval would allow only an authorized dealer or
manufacturer to install the radio and add an external FCC ID label.
Information in the following two files was presented to the FCC:
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Meeting Results:
The FCC will allow the Mini-PCI card to be certified under a Limited
Modular Approval. The application should be for use in a ThinkPad family
(chassis and antenna) such as ThinkPad X series. The application can
include data for multiple ThinkPad families. Class II permissive changes
can be made to the original Grant to include additional ThinkPad
families. (The IBM Grants that I have seen have notes indicating:
"ThinkPad X23 Laptop Personal Computer", "Laptop PC IBM ThinkPad R30",
"Full size Notebook type PC integrating IEEE 802.11", "IBM ThinkPad T23",
"IBM Laptop PC, ThinkPad A22", "IBM ThinkPad", "Notebook Type PC IBM
ThinkPad Series", and no reference.) The Grantee for the Limited Modular
Approval could be IBM or our OEM supplier. However, the OEM supplier as
the grantee must make the application for the Permissive Change and may
balk at performing Class II applications for IBM as we introduce
additional ThinkPad series.
The FCC will accept unique operability of Mini-PCI cards to only IBM
Options in a ThinkPad via control of BIOS or other software mechanism in
meeting the intent of 15.203's requirement for a "unique coupling" between
the antenna and the transmitter.
The FCC will allow the Mini-PCI card to be customer installed.
The FCC accepts the FCC ID Number on the Limited Modular Approval Mini-PCI
transmitter card. The Limited Modular Approval does not allow
installation of a certification label by the customer on the exterior of
the product under the current process. The FCC wants indication of the
presence of a radio on the exterior label of the product. The requirement
has been to include the FCC ID on an exterior label of the host product.
Remaining FCC issue - In conjunction with having the FCC ID Number on the
Mini-PCI transmitter card, we suggested a label on the ThinkPad indicating
to the user that a transmitter FCC ID Number is under the customer access
panel. The FCC seemed favorable towards this but wants to discuss further
within the FCC with a target to respond by February 1, 2002. If the FCC
does not accept our proposed approach for FCC ID Number labeling, we will