Shouldn't MacBook (13" Early 2008) work with Time Capsule at 5GHz

My son's MacBook (13" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, Machine ID MacBook4,1, running Mac OS X 10.5.7) seems to be unable to connect to my first-generation Time Capsule that is configured to operate over 802.11n on the 5GHz band (the 2.4GHz band is very crowded here).
His MacBook has a AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88) card by Broadcom (firmware BCM43xx 1.0 5.10.38.35) -- the same version of firmware I have on my MacBook Pro (which has no difficulty making the connection).
Question: Shouldn't that generation MacBook work with the 5GHz 802.11n TC?
Does anyone have an idea as to why it isn't working and/or a suggestion what to do about it?
Thank you.

It should work yes.
So it can join 2.5GHz networks fine?
Can it see the network? The network is an open one?
My current firmware is "Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.21)", which i guess is because of the firmware update that came with 10.5.8. The update was intended to solve problems with connecting to wireless networks. There was a problem with the airports on battery power and 10.5.8 but they've now released a patch. Maybe bringing your firmware up to date would help?

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