TL-WDN4800 - Unknown Locale - Why is it on the Buyer's Guide?

Hi all,

I picked up a TL-WDN4800 for my hackintosh - it "generally" works but like many other people the card is detected as unknown locale and unknown country code therefore limiting the number of available channels.

Since the card is only 1/2 working why is it listed in the buyer's guide?

Going through several years of posts there doesn't seem to be a fix for this issue? Is there no way to force the card to use the proper locale in OS X Yosemite?

Thanks.

I have the same card, bought it for the same reason because it was suggest as a compatible card.

My system is freezing with spinning wheel once in a while and im guessing it's because of the network card?

These are the messages I get over and over again in console.

Wed Apr 8 00:05:00.681 <kernel> apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 221
Wed Apr 8 00:05:00.681 <kernel> apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 221
Wed Apr 8 00:05:00.681 <kernel> apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 196
Wed Apr 8 00:05:00.681 <kernel> apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 196

I googled this and it seems others are freezing randomly as well.

I am on 10.10.3 Yosemite and the rest of my system is working well so far, with the exception of this network card.

A fix would be nice!

For those of you who are using N900 wireless routers, the TP-Link 4800 should work at or close to 450Mbps speeds. My cards did before I switched from my Linksys E4200v2 (N900) wireless router to a TP-Link Archer C7 v2 AC1750 (N1750) wireless router.

With the Archer, I had to adjust the channels to get the 4800 to regain it's 450 Mbps speed in both the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz bands. The Archer's default 5 GHz channel was 149 which the 4800 could not see since it's channels are 1-64. So, your wireless router may be the reason you aren't getting the speed you should. Try changing the 5 GHz channel to 64 or lower.

However, I found that my AC1300 speed suffered when I changed the 5 GHz channels to 64 or lower. So, I kept the 5GHz channel at auto (149) and made sure I found a good channel in the 2.4 GHz band, and, now, use the 4800 only in the 2.4 GHz band.

The good news is that my TP-Link Archer T8E AC1750 PCIe card gets consistently between 1000-1300Mbps speeds on the 5GHz band.

Hey stork, I saw your reply and was wandering if you could help me out

I am getting these errors in the console
5/13/15 11:11:32.000 AM kernel[0]: 1248.883823: apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 221
5/13/15 11:11:32.000 AM kernel[0]: 1248.884731: apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 221
5/13/15 11:11:32.000 AM kernel[0]: 1248.885070: setPOWER[5421] rxmask 5, txmask 7
5/13/15 11:11:32.000 AM kernel[0]: 1248.885114: apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 196
5/13/15 11:11:32.000 AM kernel[0]: 1248.885159: apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 196
5/13/15 11:11:34.000 AM kernel[0]: 1250.950391: apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 221
5/13/15 11:11:34.000 AM kernel[0]: 1250.950698: apple80211Request[10514] Unsupported ioctl 221


I've been searching up and down the internet looking for answers. I've posted in many different forums, and haven't gotten an answer yet. ****** wasn't much help either.

I have the TP LINK 4800 card Version 1.3
Yosemite 10.10.3
Everything is working beautiful but once in a while my system freezes and the mouse turns into an endless spinning wheel forcing me to hit the reset button.

The only messages I get constantly in the console are the ones I posted in the beginning of the message.

If you could help I would be grateful! Also, there are many others having this issue, and I could pass on the info.

Thanks!

Stork said:

With the Archer, I had to adjust the channels to get the 4800 to regain it's 450 Mbps speed in both the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz bands. The Archer's default 5 GHz channel was 149 which the 4800 could not see since it's channels are 1-64. So, your wireless router may be the reason you aren't getting the speed you should. Try changing the 5 GHz channel to 64 or lower.

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Hi Stork,

It maybe good to put a note on the compatibility guide that upper 5ghz cannel's don't work on the WDN4800 so that people aren't mistaken in thinking its "fully" compatible.

With the TP-Link Archer T8E AC1750 PCIe, do you get all channels?

coolspot said:

Hi Stork,

It maybe good to put a note on the compatibility guide that upper 5ghz cannel's don't work on the WDN4800 so that people aren't mistaken in thinking its "fully" compatible.

With the TP-Link Archer T8E AC1750 PCIe, do you get all channels?

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Here's my T8E info (sorry 'bout the big size):

Note: the Transmit Rate is in idle; when I'm downloading files, it's close to or at 1300 Mbps.

Mine drops out from time to time.... most often when using Safari....
I've found that configuring IPv6 (read somewhere here) as "LINK-LOCAL Only" it drops out less frequently... but it still does.
I've ordered one of those "real mac" card with adapter.... but it's a pity I'll have to trash the T-LINK WDN4800.....

WDN4800 when used under Windows is perfectly capable to use the higher 5GHz channels; 149 and above. I set my router to 161, Windows connects to just fine, and performance is waaay better.

The higher channels perform better because the routers radio transmit power is higher when set to use them.

Only being able to see 64 and lower channels is a limitation of the default driver OSX is loading with this card I'm sure. It would be nice if someone came up with a patched kext to enable the use of the higher channels.