User`s guide

Installing the Software
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Driver Keywords and Settings
The default PC Card configuration is set to:
• Constant Awake Mode
• Infrastructure Mode – This allows association with any
Aironet Access Point matching the SSID supplied by
the user
• The factory supplied network address
• 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