And they won't. Access points will just go back to the slightly more expensive method of using a wifi chipset with an asic and/or preinstalled non-upgradable ba

And they won't. Access points will just go back to the slightly more expensive method of using a wifi chipset with an asic and/or preinstalled non-upgradable baseband, and life will go on. The ath9k family, which is what's recommended for things like libreboot-based systems show that these exist. If they're spinning their own circuitry, they're going to have to get fcc approval anyways, and will have to make sure that their access point isn't terribly designed and spewing RF all over the spectrum because they don't understand what happens when you overdrive transistors.