User`s guide

Installing the Software

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Driver Keywords and Settings

The default Wireless LAN Adapter conﬁguration is set to:

• Constant Awake Mode

• Infrastructure Mode – This allows association with any

Aironet Access Point matching the SSID supplied by

the user

• Receive directed packets to this address as well as

multicasts and broadcasts

• Retry data packets up to 16 times before discarding the

frame

• Retry RTS sequence up to 16 times before discarding

the frame

• RTS exchange on all frames greater than 300 bytes

• Fragment frames longer than 700 bytes

• Kill fragmented transmit packets if not delivered in

5 seconds

• Kill fragmented receive frames if not complete after

10 seconds

• Active scanning with 3 Kµsec energy detect time and

20 Kµsec probe response wait timeout

• Re-scan if eight beacons are consecutively missed

• Send an Access Point keep-alive message every

10 seconds