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Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc. 7-50 Confidential and Proprietary
General Configuration Parameters
The following describes the general configuration block.
Offset Name Type
Driver
value
Factory
default Description
+0x0000 u16RidLen u16 read-
only
read-only Length of this RID including the length field
+0x0002 OperatingMode u16
Must
set
1 Select mode of operation:
0 = IBSS/Adhoc
1 = Infrastructure - Station
2 = Access Point
3 = Access Point – Repeater
The following bit-encoded fields are available for all
the modes:
Bit 8 (0x0100) PayloadType
If this bit is set, packet payloads will be received
without modification.
If this bit is clear, the receive LLC payload will be
converted to an ethernet style payload (starting with
ethertype) using the encapsulation rules.
See Encapsulation Rid for details.
Bit 9 (0x0200) Aironet Extensions Enabled.
Enables transmission of the Aironet Information
Element.
Bit10 (0x0400) Enable Access Point Extensions.
See Access Point Interface for details.
+0x0004 ReceiveMode u16 0 0 Receive Mode: -- separate this out some more...
0 = BC/MC/ADDR
1 = BC/ADDR
2 = ADDR
3 = 802.11 Monitor -- any destination -- only for the
current BSSID
4 = 802.11 Monitor -- any destination – accept
packets for any BSSID
5 = LAN Monitor -- any destination -- only for current
BSSID
The following bit-encoded fields are available for all
the modes:
bit 8 (0x0100) Disable 802.3 Header
Disables the 802.3 header in receive Fids for those
hosts that only read the 802.11 header.
+0x0006 FragmentThreshold u16 0 default 700 Fragmentation Threshold (see 802.11).
0 selects factory default. Value will be rounded up to
next even integer of at least 256 octets.
+0x0008 RTSThreshold u16 0 default 300 RTS Threshold (see 802.11).
0 selects factory default. To have all packet exchanges
preceeded by RTS/CTS select a non-zero value less
than 24 (802.11 header length).
+0x000A StationMacId Addr 0 default Factory If zero, address assigned at the factory will be used.
+0x0010 Supported Rates u8[8] 0 default 0x02,
0x04
Selects the rates which are to be supported.
0's selects the factory defaults. The entry of this field
follows the 802.11coding for the rates information
element. Each byte represents a rate in units of 500
Kbps (1 Mbps = 0x02). A "basic" rate is represented by
setting the most significant bit. A "basic" 1 Mbps rate
would be 0x82. The table ends with 0x00.
0x0002 = 1 Mbps
0x0004 = 2 Mbps
+0x0018 ShortRetryLimit u16 0 default 16 Short Retry Limit (see 802.11).
0 selects factory default.