![]() ![]() I wondered if changing these details in the firmware would change the card properties? I checked in my MacBook Pro which also has a Broadcom WiFi card and system profiler shows 'ETSI' as the regional setting and 'US' as the country code. This reminded me that WiFi kit has restricted capabilities in some parts of the world. In doing so this I noticed that the HP card had a country code of 'DE' set along with a regional setting. So, I ended up following the instructions to dump, edit and reload the cards firmware. ![]() 'draft n' was all done in software and running the right drivers would help, but on the Apple side the 'right' drivers was probably tied to using an Apple branded card. Rebranding Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n Cards as Airport | Prasys' Blog and eventually I came across the following posting: This led me to go looking for firmware patches, as I suspected the card needed to be updated to full 'n' spec from 'draft n'. ![]() In Win7 the card was automatically detected as a generic Broadcom 43xx card supporting a/b/g and draft-n speeds, but as with OSX, it wouldn't see my WLAN in 5GHz mode. In system profiler I could see that it supported 'n' channels up to 140, but wasn't listing channels 149+ which is what the TimeCapsule uses in 5GHz mode. On swapping for the stock Dell 1397 card, it was recognised by OSX but unsurprisingly reports itself as an "unknown vendor" and it would only connect using 2.4GHz frequencies (b/g compatibility mode) on my TimeCapsule router. The chipset is Broadcom's BCM43222 so in theory it supports 802.11 a/b/g/n standards. I bought a second hand $15 half-height wireless card (HP branded) from a Hong Kong eBay trader and finally got around to playing with it today. ![]()
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