Manually changing a wifi card's listed locale

I bought my MacBook Pro in the U.S. a couple of years ago, but I now live in China and am visiting friends in Australia. I'm unable to get onto my friend's wifi network, which is set to channel 13, because my wifi card says that it can't/won't support that channel. For various reasons, it's not possible to set the router in question to a different channel. Is there a way to change my card's locale manually? I've attempted to change it by switching regions to reflect where I am and then restarting the computer, but that has had no effect. Thoughts? I'm not terribly happy with Apple at the moment, as this seems like a pretty fundamental thing, and this is at least the second time it's come up and prevented me from getting online.
Here's the information in my system profile regarding the card:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x 14E4, 0x93)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.198.4.20)
Locale: FCC
Country Code: X0
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36... (it goes on listing various channels up to 165, but I'm not sure that's relevant and don't really want to type them all out).
This is becoming a real problem, and I think it may also have helped cause some wifi-related issues in China that were previously undiagnosed, so any help at all would be hugely appreciated.

Anyone?

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