I know that the overbearing FCC is the reason that my US-spec x51v doesn't utilize wlan channels 12-14. But as the Axim is a travelling device, it's a shame that Dell didn't put an enabling option in the settings.
I'm not in America, and in the rest of the world channels 12 and 13 are used. In Japan (which I do travel to) channel 14 is legally usable.
So how do I hack the firmware to open these channels?
I'd leave it alone its not that necessary at least not to the point where u would put ur device at risk of bein a brick.
I am sure he is aware of the risks, he wants to know if it is possible. I to am curious as I wouldn't mind running my home router on channel 13 or 14 becasue of everyone else around me is using 1-12 and it is damn annoying.
So, if any one has an idea on how to do this, not why not to do this, that would be swell!
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The risk is minimal as it typically is a small change that is well documented--if you can find it! I modded the Intel Mini-PCI card firmware in my laptop to enable the rest-of-the-world channels, that turned out fine. Further, I still have a warranty, "gee, I don't know what happened". If it's not a change in the registry then it's surely something in the firmware. But it doesn't look like I'll be getting any pointers here from this mostly 'merican trafficed forum!
suggestion: get all of your close neighbors together and use only channels 1, 6 and 11. Those are the only channels that don't overlap each other. Using any of the other channels will cause interference on these 3 channels as the others overlap those 3. It isn't that hard and only a couple of house seperation will be enough. I have done this in the townhouse i live in and it works out fine. no interference that I can tell anyway.
Eh? Looks like you replied to a totally differnt thread here.
Still waiting for any info on enabling those channels though.
I guess it does look like that, lol. What I was trying to get accross though was that the other channels are pretty useless as far as trying to get away from your neighbors router settings because the channels overlap. You get a much cleaner spectrum if you use the 1,6,11 setup and alternate house to house. sorry about hijacking your posts.
You get a much cleaner spectrum if you use the 1,6,11 setup and alternate house to house.
Bigdave, your idea might work in Maryland, but if you look over to my profile on the left you'll see that I'm in Seoul. From my apartment I've surveyed 150+ accesspoints. Thanks, but your idea is apart from my objective:
I want to activate channels 12-14 is to utilize unsecured wifi connections away from home. Not to snoop, but to get on the internet.
I'm pretty sure I read of someone flashing a European firmware and it didn't activate the other channels.
Obviously it's not a physically impossibility. But it's somewhere between "virtually impossible" and "unknown". It's CERTAINLY not a registry change and from what I've seen previously not a firmware re-flash.
Did you buy the Axim from the US? Or from South Korea?
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This is intriguing. It's definitely not in the ROM file that we usually download to update our devices, since the English-language ROM file is marked "WWE" - World-wide English, I presume. Could it simply be dependent on the currently selected locale in the system settings?
Or, could it be that it dependents on the firmware which is embedded within the radio chipset itself?
This is intriguing. It's definitely not in the ROM file that we usually download to update our devices, since the English-language ROM file is marked "WWE" - World-wide English, I presume. Could it simply be dependent on the currently selected locale in the system settings?
Or, could it be that it dependents on the firmware which is embedded within the radio chipset itself?
It's certainly not the regional settings. I think you hit the nail on the head - the firmware of the actual NIC.
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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.
Bigdave, your idea might work in Maryland, but if you look over to my profile on the left you'll see that I'm in Seoul. From my apartment I've surveyed 150+ accesspoints. Thanks, but your idea is apart from my objective:
I want to activate channels 12-14 is to utilize unsecured wifi connections away from home. Not to snoop, but to get on the internet.
Just curious, but what if your neighbors are also using 12-14? That won't help much. Perhaps getting a SD NIC in Seoul would give you those channels. , guess us 'mericans don't have to worry about it?
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