How to enable WLAN channels 12-14?

[ryusoma]

I'd also like to find a way to change the MAC address of the NIC. This might be in the same realm as enabling the channels.

Perhaps it's the Dell WLAN software which controls the availability of the channels. If someone who has the channels enabled (i.e. non-US version) could zip up the exe and dlls of that app, perhaps that would give us access. Just a thought.

There are quite a few PC applications to edit the MAC address of a network card in the Registry, or it can be done manually on Windows. I would suspect the same is true of the Pocket PC. I'm at a loss to explain why it would be legitimately necessary though..

[xless]

I'm at a loss to explain why it would be legitimately necessary though..

I'd like to be able to get online anonymously, i.e. via a free public AP. I don't think there's anything illegitimate about that. I'm certainly not looking to do it to bypass MAC restrictions (though if there's still anyone using only MAC restrictions to protect their WLAN, they almost deserve to be hacked...).

[Howard2k]

There are quite a few PC applications to edit the MAC address of a network card in the Registry, or it can be done manually on Windows. I would suspect the same is true of the Pocket PC. I'm at a loss to explain why it would be legitimately necessary though..

On the PPC, the key is copied to the registry, not read from it.

[Howard2k]

I'd like to be able to get online anonymously, i.e. via a free public AP. I don't think there's anything illegitimate about that. I'm certainly not looking to do it to bypass MAC restrictions (though if there's still anyone using only MAC restrictions to protect their WLAN, they almost deserve to be hacked...).

There's really minimal risk of someone intercepting your MAC address. It's only locally significant anyway.