I bought an Atheros AR9382 mini PCIE card on Ebay for my laptop. It works fine, including the wireless LED and the wifi switch, but there is one issue: It won't associate with my router on the upper channels in the 5Ghz band... I am thinking it was 159 to 165.
It seems pretty evident that the card has the location code set to something other than US; I think it is set to "world."
Is there a way to edit the firmware or get a driver to use the US standards rather than world standards? I've tried the Atheros Eeprom Tool (and several modified versions of it), but it fails to read the firmware from the card. Similarly, the TamoSoft packet sniffer tool that some people have suggested fails. When I use the region changer tool from TamoSoft, with the sniffer software and driver installed, it tells me I don't need to change the region since the special driver works on any channel regardless of what is in firmware... but the card is still not able to associate with channel 165 (for example) even with that driver loaded.
The Intel wireless card (4965AGN) has no problem associating with the router on ch. 165. If it was not causing other issues, I would just use that one... but that is a topic for another thread.
OS is Win 7 x64. Thanks in advance!
It seems pretty evident that the card has the location code set to something other than US; I think it is set to "world."
Is there a way to edit the firmware or get a driver to use the US standards rather than world standards? I've tried the Atheros Eeprom Tool (and several modified versions of it), but it fails to read the firmware from the card. Similarly, the TamoSoft packet sniffer tool that some people have suggested fails. When I use the region changer tool from TamoSoft, with the sniffer software and driver installed, it tells me I don't need to change the region since the special driver works on any channel regardless of what is in firmware... but the card is still not able to associate with channel 165 (for example) even with that driver loaded.
The Intel wireless card (4965AGN) has no problem associating with the router on ch. 165. If it was not causing other issues, I would just use that one... but that is a topic for another thread.
OS is Win 7 x64. Thanks in advance!