Wrong regulatory domain being detected

I've got a cheap brand of USB key (the box brand is "Connectland", model 
5510002 wire-cnl-usb-new) and have currently got it working fine with 
the bernios CVS code (downloaded 24th Apr) however the MAC in being 
detected as being french while i'm actually in Australia. This means 
that I'm being limited to channels 10-13. This are the lines from dmesg:

usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 13
/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503-fw_skel.c: using compiled-in firmware
/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: $Id: at76c503.c,v 1.53 
2004/04/16 19:06:02 jal2 Exp $ compiled Apr 23 2004 
21:49:13/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: firmware version 
1.101.0 #86 (fcs_len 4)
/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:0d:2f:00:c1:ce, 
regulatory domain France (id 50)
/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: registered wlan0

and when i try to set a different channel outside the french range:

/home/brenton/apps/at76c503a/at76c503.c: wlan0: channel 6 not allowed 
for domain France

Anyone know how i can make it detect that MAC as an AU one?

Brenton Schulz