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Old 01-11-2010, 09:30 PM
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Need join to 13th channel via Airport

Hi, I have problem with my Airport Extreme card to join on WLAN 13th channel (Europe wifi channels 1-13).
My AirPort Extreme Card is "Third-Party Wireless Card" 802.11b/g, chip Broadcom BCM4315 and it supports channels 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 only, but I need to join 13th channel.

Can somebody help me? I think, I need some modified driver.
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Old 01-12-2010, 12:02 AM
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Maybe try this:
http://mactip.blogspot.com/2008/12/c...rd-locale.html

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Old 01-12-2010, 10:28 AM
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thanks for reply, but it doesnt resolve my problem. I dont know why...

look at this picture:

Dell Latitude e6500
CPU: Intel C2D T9600 @ 2,8GHz / 1066MHz / 6MB
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800 MHz
VGA: NVidia Quadro NVS 160M 256MB
Sound: (working voodooHDA)
WLAN: Dell Wireless 1510 abgn @ BCM4328
LAN:' Intel
HDD: Samsung SSD 128MB SATA-II
Screen: 15,4" 1920x1200@60Hz
Snow @ 10.6.7

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Old 01-12-2010, 12:53 PM
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I could imagine this to be a limitation by Dell to make their prodcut suitable for outer european FCC rules. Does it work using an other OS? If not maybe ask the Dell support?

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Old 01-12-2010, 03:29 PM
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Where did you obtain the card, the card may not support 13 channels as a hardware limitation, which means that you may have a shot if you can flash new firmware to the card as an update, but that would probably require access to a Windoze box.

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Old 01-12-2010, 04:08 PM
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Hi, under Windows XP and Windows 7 card supports channels for Europe 1-13, only under MacOSX it doesnt support 13 channels.

Dell Latitude e6500
CPU: Intel C2D T9600 @ 2,8GHz / 1066MHz / 6MB
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800 MHz
VGA: NVidia Quadro NVS 160M 256MB
Sound: (working voodooHDA)
WLAN: Dell Wireless 1510 abgn @ BCM4328
LAN:' Intel
HDD: Samsung SSD 128MB SATA-II
Screen: 15,4" 1920x1200@60Hz
Snow @ 10.6.7
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Old 01-12-2010, 05:15 PM
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Well you need to find a fix or patch then for your problem, but there has to be some way of enabling it, it may require alot of work though, I think if you modified the .kext file it may work, I have modified WIFI .kext files before to work with different device IDs for different revisions.


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Old 01-12-2010, 07:08 PM
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Weird thing is that my BCM4311 card (non-branded product) which I had orderd from the UK doesn't have this limit - at least not on 10.6.2

(And it's using them same Kernel Extension.)

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Old 01-12-2010, 07:16 PM
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Ok, then maby its the card itself, maby a firmware update on the card?


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Old 01-12-2010, 10:21 PM
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I do not know how to patch or edit the kext.
But, I must edit IO80211Familiy.kext to work my BCM4135 wifi card, because original kext includes these vendors IDs: 4311, 4312, 4313, 4318, 4319, 431a, 4320 etc... and my card ID is 4315 which is not included in original kext, so I simply added this ID to original IO80211Family.kext and now it is working, but only on channels 1-11.



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Dell Latitude e6500
CPU: Intel C2D T9600 @ 2,8GHz / 1066MHz / 6MB
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800 MHz
VGA: NVidia Quadro NVS 160M 256MB
Sound: (working voodooHDA)
WLAN: Dell Wireless 1510 abgn @ BCM4328
LAN:' Intel
HDD: Samsung SSD 128MB SATA-II
Screen: 15,4" 1920x1200@60Hz
Snow @ 10.6.7
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